Re: IIgs Battery Solutions / IIe Power Supply / TurboASB

["Henry" <apl2research@comcast.net>]

Hey Paul.

Thanks for the info.  Being the 'research' guy at GSE-Reactive.com I didn't 
have much success acquiring info on the TurboASB.  I didn't find any info 
that was newer then 10-12 years old.  I found it was produced by Lightning 
Systems, but do a search for that on the Internet provides too many useless 
results.  From what I can tell Lightning Systems is also out of business, or 
is/was just Ron Higgins at a PO Box.  I think I may have found a current 
email address for him (rhiggins(at)execpc.com).  Hopefully the address is 
still good and I'll receive a response back.

I also see I was wrong, that the Turbo ASB extends a SSC's speed to 
230,400bps, not 115,200 like I had once thought.  Although possible, I don't 
think there is any software that supports it and a IIe would probably need 
an accelerator to be fast enough to deal with it.  The new SSC baud rates 
with the Turbo ASB are 38.4K, 57.6K,115.2K and 230.4K.

As I've said before, I'm not looking to step on any toes.  Just provide 
legacy hardware options for current Apple II users.  Hopefully I can get in 
touch with Ron and we can re-offer the Turbo ASB to the Apple II community. 
If not we will at least be offering the 65C51 IC's for those who want to 
correct the handshaking issue on the SSC.

I'll post my results here in the next few days.

Thanks again for the info!  By the way, may I ask what exactly was your roll 
with the Turbo ASB?



Henry S. Courbis
www.GSE-Reactive.com
Apple II Series Legacy Hardware - Come take a look at what we have to offer!

"PZ" <skierpaul@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
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> You better not be selling the Turbo ASB unless you've secured
> distribution rights from one of the two designers.  You certainly
> havn't talked to me about it, I hope you've talked to Ron.  If you've
> talked with him, then you're all good since he did most of the work.
>
> - Paul
>