Re: NAUG Magazine collection - Videx card

["Tony Turner" <thturner@telusplanet.net>]

Yes, it's an 80-column card - so sayeth the manual - it can do 18 lines x 80 
chrs or 24 lines x 80 chrs.  It's fairly early in the Apple II history; 
after-all, it is addressing the need for 80 chrs & upper/lower case, so it's 
likely got a somewhat narrow frame of usability in the Apple II history - 
pre-Apple IIe, perhaps prior to the II+ for that matter.  Not that I'm 
attempting to disuade you, but if you're unsure if you can use this card, 
since the manual only indicates a few software packages it can work with 
(Apple PIE, EasyWriter, for example); I suggest it might possibly not be an 
effective purchase in getting your old system up & running again.  I'm 
guessing here, but I'm thinking that it will  probably be of more use to 
someone who collects Apple II peripheral, parts, accessories, for the sake 
of collecting & maybe exploring - but perhaps not as a solution to your 
quandry.  It might run just fine in your II+, I just don't know.

Yeah, if you're interested, make an offer - but this foray back onto the 
comp.sys.apple2 group is mostly for seeing if someone wants my (partial) 
NAUG collection, perhaps to supplement theirs.

Thanks for asking.

As well, I'm not savvy enough to answer your other questions.  I know my own 
hardware & software, but there'll be others that can likely assist you with 
answers.  Not avoiding answering - just don't know...

My NAUG magazines can hang-around for a while yet - I can bluff my 
sweetheart with the ol' "I'm waiting for an offer" routine & hang-on to them 
longer.  I'm not going to lose sleep if I'm 'forced' to keep them!  ;-)

All the best.

-Tony T.



"bloomer_au" <bloomer@iprimus.com.au> wrote in message 
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> Hi Tony,
>
> Is the Videx Videoterm... is that an 80 column card? And is it different 
> from their Ultraterm?
>
> I think that might have been the 80 column card that blew up in my Apple 
> II+ (IE with smoke), and which I too hastily threw away.
>
> If I want to get my II+ going good again, I need
> - a disk card and drive (can I replace both with a CFFA?..)
> - a monitor
> - an 80 column card
>
> So, I'm potentially interested in the Videx.
>
> - Wade