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neophite help




Help, I've come across a LASER 128 computer that appears to be 
a apple ][ clone of sorts.

here is what it has...


65c802 WD processor (16bits?)
128K dram onboard 
an empty memory daughter board with 4 banks of eight  18 pin sockets 
	(64Kx1's or 256K's ??? I don't know :( )
64K dram in a video block
a couple of 6551's
a couple of 6116's
a 8048(surprise)
some surface mount things...
a EPROM accessible from a hatch on the bottom


across the back...
power switch
1 7-pin din power plug (15VDC)
2 5-pin din serial ports 
1 db-style disk port
flip up handle aka. ][c
1 RCA composite video
1 db-style video "expansion"
1 switch labeled "enhanced/standard keyboard"
1 db25 parallel port
1 db-style joystick port

on the right side... 
1 1/2 height 5 1/4 drive
stereo earphone plug & volume control

on the left side...
some sort of BUS expansion connector

on the front...
keyboard with numeric pad, 
open and closed triangles where apple keys would be
a reset button in the upper left

a 40/80 col switch
a serial/parallel switch
3 status leds (power, disk, & caps lock)

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after hacking a wall wart  transformer to ~17VDC
it powers up and displays a copyright message and a
no-boot disk error.
(Copyright is  Central-Point Software [who'd have guessed])

I have a apple logo disk it will boot (but don't know logo)
it will also boot a comm package (prodos disk)

It might have a video problem as there was lots of color ghosting
into my TV (composite in) that came and went.

but would like to know rear panel pin outs. It same with a 3 1/2 drive from
a old mac pluged in (but I was chicken to leave it pluged in as I have no
small disks and am not sure if the drive was electrically compatable.

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So, who recognizes this beast? What are the official features & what model
of apple ][ is this a clone of? I've never seen a GS so... tell me!

thanks.
darrellm

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Darrell McGinnis				darrellm@pogo.WV.TEK.COM
Tektronix, Inc., P.O. Box 1000, MS 63-356	(503) 685-3285
Wilsonville, OR 97070
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Darrell McGinnis				darrellm@pogo.WV.TEK.COM
Tektronix, Inc., P.O. Box 1000, MS 63-356	(503) 685-3285
Wilsonville, OR 97070