Re: Maxed out Apple II computers

["PZ" <skierpaul@yahoo.com>]

Well, the CDrive was hardly available.  Applied Inginuity went out of
business shortly after its introduction.

>>What are in the slots of a IIc+?

There's a memory expansion header, don't know what signals are
available though.

>>Anyone got a schematic or block diagram of the slotmaker chip.  (I am
>>assuming it has a slot maker chip.)

If anyone does, it would be Tony Diaz.  I know he has the entire //e
MMU schematic, he might have the slotmaker.  If anything, we can get a
lot of the slotmaker info from the II+.  IMHO, the IIe is just a II+
with better hardware memory management, and LSI logic to replace all of
the common IC's on the II+.  (Sure there's more ram, a 65c02, and more
refined ROM code too.)  But I don't think that there's such drastic
difference when you look closer.

>>- I'd want to place the CFFA rom in the c600 region so the IIc+ would
>>automatically downshift...
>>- I'd want a switch to allow use of the smartport 5.25 but I could live
>>without it.
why "slot 6"?   I think we can hard wire it to the slot 7 (or 5?) I/O
address without much more work.

Sean brought up a good point.  Smartwatch/NoSlotClock capability would
be very nice.

I think that apple made memory expansion in the IIC+ very easy, I
believe all the signals are there, similar to how the GS is set up.  If
one were to use the mem expansion slot for this project, might as well
include a 1mb simm.  If I go to Kfest, I'll order a IIc+ reference from
Syndicomm and have them bring it.  (Chances are not looking good for me
this year, but maybe something will happen last minute)

- Paul