Re: MultiFunction card?

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

Pim Blokland <nipp@nipp.nl> wrote:

> In article <rAAe4.1834$sb.40092@news1.sttls1.wa.home.com>, "ernestls"
> <leucoplast@seanet.com> wrote:
> 
> > I keep seeing multifunction cards for sale on ebay but the auctions never
> > say what they are for. What does a multifunction card do? What are these
> 
> Usually, serial and parallel. But you're right, they could be abit more
> specific.

A clock is another possibility.

> > Also, what is a language card? Is it for programming -as in Pascal or
> > Basic,
> 
> It is a memory expansion card, specifically designed to load Pascal and
> Basic in it. However, lately it is being abused by ProDOS.
> If you have a //e, you don't need one, since the //e has the same memory
> built in.

Not only do you not need one, but you can't use Apple's language card at
all with a IIe or IIgs.  The genuine Apple card has a cable which plugs
into one of the RAM sockets on the ][/][+ motherboard, with the RAM chip
being relocated onto the card.  It won't work in any later model.

Some third-party language card removed this arrangement, so they could
theoretically be used in a different slot in a IIe or IIgs, but no
software would be able to handle them, so there isn't much point.

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David Empson
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