Re: Strange expansion card?

[spqr@ruth.uucp (Will Baguhn)]

ab616@cfn.cs.dal.ca (Tony Cianfaglione) writes:

| Kathleen Branin (bran0097@maroon.tc.umn.edu) wrote:
| : I picked up (in a load of apple II "junk")  a "Q-68 board" by "Qwerty Inc."
| 
| : It has a 68008 cpu on it, a bit of rom, and a bit of static ram... any idea
| 
| : it was installed on a IIe,  the date codes on the chips put it at about 
| : 83'-84'.
| 
| 
| There is no such thing as Apple II 'junk'; just good used Apple II 
| miscellanea.
| 
| Tony.

actually, there _IS_ Apple II junk.

i don't know that it was built ever.... ;)

however, an accelerator running at .5 Mhz (decelerator?) wouldn't serve 
much usefulness for everyday work (debugging, maybe).

hmm, a decelerator sounds kinda neat now that i think about it.

other "bad ideas":

game port parallel driver (doable?  yes.  touchy?  VERY.)
20 column display card
3" disk drive (Amdek made one, didn't they?)
9 track tape drive (it'd be interesting, tho...)

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