Re: Ace?

[jdb8042@TAMUTS.TAMU.EDU (John Donald Baker)]

The ACE 1000, 1100 and 1200 are all the same computer.  They are equivalent
to a 64K Apple ][+ with hardware upper and lowercase display.

The 1000 was just the motherboard, keyboard, case, power supply.  The 1100
added an ACE 10 disk drive in a special top that replaced the standard top
for the CPU case.  The 1200 had two drives in the special top.

Early ACE 1x00 (Rev. A motherboard) were black and white.  used specific
pixel patterns instead of colors.  The later motherboards (Rev. [] {box}
and later) were full color.  (I've had one of each.)

The ACE 2x00 series were supposed to be 128K-//e compatible, but they were
very poor.  Only had 3 expansion slots, proprietary expansion connector for
disk drives, etc.  The black case looked sharp, but it was a waste.

The ACE 1x00 series can run all versions of ProDOS up to v1.9 with some
simple patches.  I understand that if a 65c02 is installed, it will run
ProDOS 2.x, again with those same simple patches.

I still have an ACE 1000 Rev. [] chugging away at home.  (My dad uses it
occasionally.)  Very nice machine.


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