Re: Hardware test/ID floppy?

[david@uow.edu.au (David Wilson)]

mikeford@netwiz.net (Mike Ford) writes:
>I was just thinking it sure would be nice if there was a bootable floppy
>disc I could pop into an Apple and it would come up with a screen showing
>all the interesting details of the hardware inside. Rom version, what kind
>of cards are in the slots, how much memory, all that sort of thing. Does
>anything like that exist?

There are some programs like that. Some are commercial (I think) while others
are shareware (some years ago I helped beta test one written by a poster to
this newsgroup). It identified the CPU type (6502/65c02/R65c02/65802/65816) &
speed, main & aux ram banks, smartports and attached devices, common serial
parallel and other cards.
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David Wilson  School of IT & CS, Uni of Wollongong, Australia