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Re: Berkeley Softworks IRQ Manager
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 07:57:54 -0800, Wayne Stewart wrote:
> Robert Thomas wrote:
>
>> http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2004033432&r=0&t=0&sh
>> owTutorial=0&ed=1014654261&indexURL=0&rd=1
>>
>> What is this? What's it used for? How can I use it to my advantage?
>
> It's used to provide interrupts for the GEOS software in systems that
> doesn't have a
> mouse card. That's the only time you'd ever need the card and then only if
> you have no
> mouse card or equivalent.
> I have one and I saw another in a local thrift store a short while back. I
> was tempted in
> that I suspect that they aren't super common but passed because I suspect
> no one
> would actually ever need to use it.
>
>
> Wayne
I don't know it might be quite fun to tinker with GEOS. Was it as good as the
advertising blurb in various Apple II magazines at the time?
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> Robert Thomas wrote:
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><br>owTutorial=0&ed=1014654261&indexURL=0&rd=1 <p>What is this?
What
> 's it used for? How can I use it to my advantage?</blockquote>
>
><p><br>It's used to provide interrupts for the GEOS software in systems
> that doesn't have a
><br>mouse card. That's the only time you'd ever need the card and then
> only if you have no
><br>mouse card or equivalent.
><br>I have one and I saw another in a local thrift store a short while
> back. I was tempted in
><br>that I suspect that they aren't super common but passed because I suspect
> no one
><br>would actually ever need to use it.
><br>
><p> Wayne</html>
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