Re: II+ and Videx Card

[wbdesnoy@acs2.acs.ucalgary.ca (Byron Desnoyers Winmill)]

phoenyx (quazar@dcnet2000.com) wrote:
: Byron Desnoyers Winmill wrote:

: > I just picked up a II+ with a videx vidterm card.  Does anybody know how to
: > install and use this card?

: I don't think it survived long after the Apple card hit the market. If I
: remember it had some extra functionality which was software driven.
: There is also a Linux emulator which supports 80 column with the
: ROM image from this card, but I have never seen the image any
: where. I think the emulator package mentioned something about it.

While attempting to hunt down information on this card, I even found a termcap
entry for it.  So it is possible to "use" Linux from the II+ too!

At anyrate, this card represents my only hope of getting 80 columns on the ||+,
so I would still like to get it running properly.  (Besides, I think that the
only 80 column cards produced by Apple were for the IIe.)  The problem is that
typing PR#3 causes the cursor to vanish, and nothing else.  I think that this
is because the row of five pins along the front of the card must be connected
to the machine in some fashion.  Alas, I do not know which pin should be
connected to where . . .

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