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Re: Space 83 clone?
- Subject: Re: Space 83 clone?
- From: Patrick Schaefer <PSchaefer@epost.de>
- Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2001 12:59:47 +0200
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: am Notebook
- References: <J7Yl7.46573$MK5.27084632@news1.sttln1.wa.home.com>
- Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.sys.apple2:12996
Ernest schrieb:
>
> Has anyone ever heard of an apple II clone called a Space 83?
This board was made by IBS Computertechnik in Bielefeld, Germany.
Space 82 is an Apple II Rev F-Clone, Space 83 is somewhat improved (it
has a DIN cassette plug and three 2732 instead of six 2716) and Space 84
has an additional 64k RAM disk included.
Space 85 uses VG64 sockets instead of the regular slots, this board was
designed for industrial applications. VG64 is the same kind of connector
that has been used for VME or NuBus.
Because Applesoft Basic and the Autostart Monitor were copyright
protected (the circuit itself was not, only the psu is patented), IBS
supplied their systems with a Forth interpreter in ROM. If you wanted to
use Applesoft, you had to buy a DOS3.3 license and load it into the
language card. Or you had to get a pirate copy of the ROMs.
Patrick