Re: Apple II mentioned in MacWeek

[tdiaz@coyote.csusm.edu (Tony Diaz)]

David Empson (dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz) wrote:
> In article <3ledm7$gcr@pentagon.io.com>,
> Earl Cooley III <shiva@pentagon.io.com> wrote:
> > What is in the Apple IIe Accessory Kit? 

> I'm pretty sure it is the upgrade kit to turn an unenhanced IIe into
> an enhanced one.

Thats what they called the 19 Pin Drive controller when it was all packaged
up. 'The accessory kit', since you needed it to do anything with the //e,
that is, unless... you happened to have a cassette recorder laying around...

It used to come packaged with the DuoDisk, but they ditched the DuoDisk for
the UniDisk and out came the controller, but it kept it's name "Apple //e
accessory kit". Since thats what it was, the Apple //e Accessory Kit for the
DuoDisk. When you bought a printer, say an ImageWriter I, you then got the 
Accessory Kit for the particular computer you were gonna use it with. 
For the IW-I you had Apple //, (included the ][+ bracket & //e nutplate)
Apple //c, Apple ///, Mac 128/512 & Lisa kits to choose from. Each had a 
'part II' of the manual with specifics to that CPU and the needed cable 
to attach the printer. 

There was only one use for the DuoDisk (allthough some people think that was
boat anchor, door stop, etc.. ) it was the Apple //e, so there was the one
accessory kit for it. No choices.

The Enhancement Kit was the ROM upgrade, they stopped offering that with last
falls round of Apple II product discontinuing from the price list.

I guess the //e could take the cake for the longest running production of
a computer with a cassette i/o still standard on the motherboard. 

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