Re: apple2 slot 0

[Ziggy <Ziggy@faked-address.com>]

Knut Roll-Lund wrote:

> Martin Doherty wrote:
>> Giovanni wrote:
>> 
>>> I was checking a 80columns extended card on a working apple2. By
>>> mistake I plugged it in to slot 0 that should be reserved for ram/rom
>>> expansion, and then, powering up the computer it did not boot up, even
>>> removing the card from the slot, and it has never booted up since, not
>>> even a beep. What can have gone wrong ?
>>>
>>> Thanks for the help,
>>>                        Giovanni
>>>
>> Couple of things seem odd in your post.
>> 
>> 1) the Apple IIe extended AUX slot has more pins than the standard slot
>> (i'm pretty sure), therefore it should not have been physically possible
>> to plug the extended 80 col card into any of the standard slots
>> 
>> 2) The Apple IIe does not have a Slot 0, this was only on the Apple
>> II/II+.
> 
> Aren't there also some 80-col cards also for the II and II+? They would
> go in a normal slot then... I think.
> 
> Knut

There is at least one out there, as i have one.. It was in a II+