Re: Slot 3 card: I found another one for a robot

[pausch@saafNOSPAM.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <R0Am5.1950$x16.128317@monger.newsread.com>,
Matthew T. Russotto <russotto@wanda.vf.pond.com> wrote:
 
> In article <3999F630.1643AB5A@wanadoo.nl>,
> ruud.dingemans <ruud.dingemans@wanadoo.nl> wrote:
>
>} Paul Schlyter wrote:
>}
>}> Of course, with the Apple //e and //c, which had 80-column support
>}> built-in, slot #3 becase free for other uses.
>}
>} Tell that to my IIe's then (one of them 'enhanced'), which strangely
>} lack 80-column support in any shape or form.
> 
> The support's built in, but there's no memory to back it up.  Try
> flipping the soft switch for 80 column and see what happens.
 
I canb't, because I have no access to a //e.
 
> This may be splitting hairs, but it is why the IIe "80-column card"
> was so cheap compared to the ][/][+ versions.
 
OK -- thus 80-column support was "half" built in into the //e.
 
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