Re: Your first A2.

[russotto@wanda.pond.com (Matthew Russotto)]

In article <3b468c68.22581882@news.videotron.ca>,
Mark Percival <markREMOVE@a2central.com> wrote:
>On Sat, 07 Jul 2001, a_specto@alcor.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)
>wrote:
>
>Steven Weyhrich makes mention in his Apple II History that the Apple
>II plus came standard with 48K RAM.  I know from what I saw that this
>wasn't true until the later run II pluses in the 1981-1982 era.
>
>>    They did remove support for 4K DRAMs though, right? Or was
>>that just the jumper blocks to select between 4K and 16K chips
>>that I'm thinking of?
>
>This is also mentioned in Apple II History but again this didn't
>happen until the later run II pluses that they remove the jumper
>blocks.

My II+ had the jumper blocks.  All labeled 16K -- it was a
fully-loaded machine.

>See http://www.apple2history.org/history/ah06.html, 2nd paragraph.
>
>Another feature of those late run Apple II pluses was the modification
>to the keyboard that made reset a ctrl-reset to help prevent
>accidental resets.  There was a switch that disabled this under the
>keyboard.

My II+ had this switch.  So this came earlier than removing the jumper
blocks.  (I thought late run pre-II+ machines had this, but I can't
get to my manuals at the moment)


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