Re: Space 83 clone?

["Ernest" <ernestls@home.NOSPAM.com>]

"Patrick Schaefer" <PSchaefer@epost.de> wrote in message
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> 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

Thanks for the information. The Euro Super was shipped to me from Germany,
and the guy I bought it from must have cobbled this thing together parts he
had laying around.