Re: ][+ ROM Card

[zantec@my-dejanews.com]

In article <70ctva$gt2@login.freenet.columbus.oh.us>,
  dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff) wrote:
> bluemeanie@my-dejanews.com wrote:
> : In article <7093fm$nlg$1@news.ccit.arizona.edu>,
> :   Christopher J Lewandowski-pearson <lewandow@u.arizona.edu> wrote:
> : >
> : > Pardon my ignorance, but what is a ][+ ROM card??
> : >
> : > -Chris
> : >
>
> : It's a card with 6 DIP sockets on it just like on a ][+ motherboard and a
> : switch to turn it on and off.  Flip the switch, press reset, and the ROMs on
> : the card override the ones on the motherboard.	Wanna see a //e with
Integer
> : Basic and Old Monitor - in ROM?  Just fill a ROM card with original Apple ][
> : ROMs and there ya go.  It's useful for backwards compatibility, but not a
> : whole lot more.
>
> Ummmmm....Wait a minute...can you do that with a //e?  I thought the ROM
> cards were intended to operate in Slot 0, which the //e doesn't have...??
>
> I do remember working with one machine that had a ROM card...it was an
> Apple ][ with an Applesoft ROM card, which was kind of nice...
>
> --Dave Althoff, ][.
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