Re: Apple model history?

[shack@southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <20000429143403.03976.00000332@ng-fg1.aol.com>,
Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote:

>>The chip on the LC card is not a mega II. It's even smaller than that. I
>>forget the name, I'd have to pull one of mine out and look at the label.
>
>According to the magazine articles (both Mac and Apple II) I read at
>the time, the chip WAS the Mega II.  They might have done a die
>shrink, but the circuitry is the same.

The chip is labeled Gemini on my IIe cards. Much smaller than the Mega II.
Could be the same inside, but the name and part# are different.

>They probably shrunk the die as new technology came out and to
>avoid overtaxing the weak Mac LC power supply (which was quite
>a bit less powerful than the ROM 3 IIGS power supply).

It'd take up too much card space I expect. Cards for LCs couldn't bee overly
big or else they wouldn't fit. There is a 65C02 and IWM on there too along
with glue type circuits.
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