Re: //e enhancement. Iigs Audio animator and music stuff.

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Richard Kilpatrick wrote:

>I'm due to get an Apple //e at some point, and with this in mind I grabbed a
>bunch of Workstation cards off eBay. I'll have spares when I've made cables
>for them. Anyway, I know I need an enhanced //e, and these are relatively
>uncommon in the UK so my chances of getting one are slim.
>
>Given that it is ROM and a 65C02, which I can steal from an old Acorn
>probably, can anyone still provide this stuff? I found one on eBay, but I
>might be outbid on it. I don't care about boxes or '65C02' stickers, as long
>as I can use the Workstation card ;)

Actually, in my experience, enhanced //e's are more common than
unenhanced ones.

>I'm still looking for a Iigs Audio Animator - I was offered one just after
>bidding on one on eBay, and haven't heard from the owner since. There could
>be an email issue, but I'm still looking at the moment. I'm also looking for
>other Apple music hardware, especially earlier stuff like the Alpha
>Syntauri. This is because Sound on Sound finally printed the article about
>my old drum machine (I posted here eons ago asking about sample hardware),
>and I want to do another one, this time dealing with music synthesis. Apples
>will feature heavily in this, but I want to at least play with the hardware.

Alpha Syntauri used the Mountain Music System pair of cards implementing
16 digital oscillators to do wavetable synthesis.  Every once in a while a set
comes up on eBay, as do the Alpha Syntauri keyboards.  What practically
never comes up is the Apple adapter card for the pre-MIDI velocity-sensing
keyboard.

>Also, does anyone know what connects to the Ufonic card produced by PLC, not
>Borg Warner? It has a blue connector on the end, presumably for a speech
>box. I bought one on eBay because it was surface mount and seemed remarkably
>'recent' for an Apple ][ product - and because it has a TI 5220 speech chip
>on it ;)

That is just a speaker connector.  The Ufonic is a complete computer on
a card, and drives the 5220 directly.  Just type "PR#x" and it will start
talking.  ;-)

-michael

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