Re: Mitac Apple 2 clone?

[julesrichardsonuk@yahoo.co.uk (Jules)]

"Ernest" <leucoplast@seanet.NOSPAM.com> wrote in message news:<ffQDa.1141447$S_4.1172233@rwcrnsc53>...
> Very slick. Your clone might be smart enough to scan the slots, or something
> like that. If you put a printer card in slot 1 and tell the compute to print
> to slot one, it might be smart enough to figure it out. I'm not really sure.

well there's ten more wires leading to the comp than there are pins on
the Apple bus connector, so I expect that slot expander appears just
like a normal Apple 2 bus as far as cards are concerned. I don't know
the wiring of the various card slots on a normal Apple to be able to
figure out if ten extra wires is enough.

> That's a very cool system you've got there. Have you tested it yet? Do you
> have any CP/M disks for an Apple II? What does it show on the screen when you
> turn it on -ie does it say Apple ][ or Mitac, etc.?

Yep, managed to find some time to take a quick look at it earlier on.
The power LED didn't light at first but the speaker beeped, turned out
to be a bad solder joint on the power LED and nothing more.

It says Apple ][ on startup and just sits there; I can't remember if
that's what an original A2 does or not! Hitting ctrl-reset dumps it
into BASIC.

I can get a very streaky display using my TV but nothing better at
present so it looks like the TV output is PAL, but faulty or the
channel the machine is fixed it is interfering with a terrestrial TV
channel.

Seems to work ok with a monitor in 40-col mode; I don't get a usable
display using the 80-col connector but that might be the monitor I
found in the cupboard not being capable rather than the Mitac itself.

Not tried the disk interface yet - and yes I did see an Apple disk
marked as having CP/M software on it when I was having a sort through
things earlier so I'll try that.

At least it looks hopeful so far anyway :-)

cheers

Jules