Re: ][+ ROM Card

[dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff)]

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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