Re: New Apple II ethernet card for sale

[Glenn Jones <rg.jones@rogers.com>]

Ed Eastman wrote:
> Vince Briel wrote:
>
> > Nice work on the ethernet card Glenn. Any chance that you'll get II+ 
> > to work with stock speed? And I just sold my accelerator.
> >
> > Vince
> It does work at stock speed.  The II line CPUs are all 2MHz rated.
>
> Thankx,
> Ed

Hi Vince and Ed

Actually I understand (and this may not be totally accurate) the 
original Apple ][ and some of the earlier (maybe all?)II+'s have the 
synertek 6502 (1MHz part) . Later Apple machines (possibly) and most 
clones used the Rockwell (and others) 6502A (2Mhz part).

I have an apple II+ on loan from Tim and I could *not* get it to work. 
After reading this technote page

>http://web.pdx.edu/~heiss/technotes/aiie/tn.aiie.04.html

pointed out to me by Rich Dreher, I got the idea to try swiching a 
Rockwell 6502A from a Decider clone I have to the Apple II. Worked like 
a charm.

So that is why I specify a 6502A or later as a minium requirement for 
the card.

Now that doesn't help folks who want to keep their early Apple II 
"cherry" ... but it is a work around that can be reversed easily later on :)

Glenn

ps

thanks for the compliment  :O)