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Applesoft Firmware Card
- Subject: Applesoft Firmware Card
- From: Steven Weyhrich <a2history@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2013 15:53:34 -0700 (PDT)
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I have been trying to clarify dates of release of some early Apple products, and was reminded that the Applesoft Firmware Card came out some time in the first part of 1978, a year before work on the Autostart ROM was begun. Consequently, at least some Applesoft Firmware Cards out there do NOT have a different Monitor ROM than the original one.
Does anyone out there have an old Applesoft Firmware Card? If so, does pressing RESET when the switch is set for Applesoft drop the user into the Monitor as it did on the original Apple II with Integer BASIC?
Does anyone have a version of the Applesoft Firmware Card that DOES have the Autostart ROM code on it? That is, are there two versions of it out there, one with Autostart and one that just uses the motherboard ROM?
And while we are at it, I have heard that there was an Integer Firmware Card, but have not actually seen it mentioned by someone who owned one. Any of those out there?