Re: Returning Apple User

[rhohler <rick.hohler@gmail.com>]

On Nov 3, 7:48 pm, Steven Hirsch <snhir...@gmail.com> wrote:
> sfahey wrote:
> >   To: Steven Hirsch
> >   Re: Re: Returning Apple User
> >   By: Steven Hirsch to comp.sys.apple2 on Mon Nov 03 2008 07:47 am
>
> >  > Otherwise, probably best to stick with something like an Applicard clone.
> >  > That's a vanilla Z80 design with its own 64k bank of memory.  I do have the
> >  > schematics for it and it's all 74-series jellybean logic.
>
> > Wasn't this card expandable to 128K with an add-on module? Wasn't there some
> > kind of additional expansion for these also? My memory is very fuzzy, but iirc,
> > there were 2 different things you could add to these, RAM and something else.
>
> Yes, it was.  You had to stack (2) little daughter cards on the headers at the
> front of the Applicard.  There was an SIO board that could connect there as
> well.  That was never produced commercially, but Ray Klein (who I believe also
> designed the original SoftCard) did do a board layout and sent these to folks
> who asked nicely.  I think I have a couple of these somewhere.
>
> Even rarer was the Apple /// variant of the Applicard which was to form the
> basis of an Apple IIc CP/M add-on.  I think I may have one of these also.
>
> Haven't thought about this stuff for years.  Really takes me back!
>
> Steve

The link below has an interesting read about Ray Klein, the AppliCard
and the proposed IIc version.

http://mylinuxisp.com/~jdbaker/oldsite/SmallSys/AppliCard.html

Rick