Re: A Few Apple II questions...

[labelas@hotmail.com (Labelas Enoreth)]

> 1. The numeric keypad was meant for the beige IIe,  the platinum IIe wasn't
> even in production when it came out. However it will work on any IIe, even
> the platinum IIe but there were probably very few people that wanted 2
> numeric keypads on their IIe
Ah. But none of mine seem to have the proper (external) connector. The
beige one I have is the earlier model though, so I guess the external
connector came along midway through the line?

> 2  The easiest way to find the UniDisk 3.5 driver is, assuming you're
> running system 6.0.1 then boot the installer, click on customize. After
> that scroll down to Driver:UniDisk 3.5 and install,  it'll tell you which
> disk  you need.
> Without the driver you should at least see the light flicker a couple times
> unless the drives aren't hooked up in the correct sequence. From the
> smartport it should be 3.5 AppleDisks, 3.5 UniDisks, 5.25 drives.
Hmm. I could have sworn I combed the disks, but maybe I didn't look hard enough.
I think the order is AppleDisk3.5-UniDisk3.5-AppleDisk5.25 on the chain,
so everything should be proper. Can I use two Apple Disks 3.5? _and_ one
UniDisk 3.5? Or am I still limited to 2 3.5 drives? I unhooked one of the
AppleDisks when I added the UniDisk to the chain.

> 3. From Apple there was the Color 100 RGB and when the IIgs came
> out, the AppleColor RGB.
> A number of manufacturers made RGB cards to use one or the other of
> these monitors. Cards were also made to utilize EGA, CGA, VGA, and SVGA
> monitors.
> Unfortunately the DB15 connector on the IIc wasn't made to hook directly
> to anything except the LCD display. For RGB output you need an
> uncommon external adapter box. It's a pity they didn't make that an RGB port.
Ah. I guess I've never seen the Color 100 RGB then. What did it look like?
Yeah, I'd heard of the Second Sight and such. I just wondered if there was
an Apple-made, Apple equipment-utilizing type setup out there. I'd
wondered about the IIc's port, though I could have sworn at one point I
knew someone with an RGB monitor hooked up without any excess
attachments...maybe I was wrong though. Was the adaptor sort of like the
IIc RF modulator?