Re: What is 'Encoder Bd Apple II' ????

[shoppa@almach.caltech.edu (Timothy D. Shoppa)]

In article <3s7nr6$luk@stork.qut.edu.au>, iepyeo@redash.qut.edu.au (Willie Yeo) writes...
>	I have been passed on by one of my club members, a small little
>card which stumped all of the Apple II members to what it does.

My god, what's happened to your club membership?  I bet they wouldn't
know how to boot a 13-sector floppy or load an Integer Basic program from
cassette, either!

>	It is named "Encoder Bd. Apple II", Part# 820-0026-C, (c) 1979.
>On the top right hand corner is a row of 25 pins sticking out. There is
>a big 40 pin socket with no IC on it on the bottom right of the card.
> 
>	There is a manual switch labelled "CTRL-Reset" on the top left
>corner. And another small empty 16 pin IC socket, on the bottem left.

It's a keyboard encoder from a Apple ][+ or very late II.  (It is
distinguished from the usual II encoder by the presence of the
CTRL-Reset switch.)

Tim. (shoppa@altair.krl.caltech.edu)