Re: apple clone

[rubywand@swbell.net]

land wrote:
> 
> how do i connect a tape drive to a franklin 2100 apple ][e clone
> it has no ports to connect a tape drive do i need a new card or what?


     If there is no place to connect a tape drive, the answer is, 
probably, "or what".

     Some IIc, IIgs, or Franklin vendor may have come up with a Casette 
I/O "cable" for owners of machines without this feature; but, finding one 
of these is likely to be a long shot.

     You could build an Cassette I/O interface without too much trouble. 
An Op-amp going to a Game Port line can serve as Input. The Franklin's 
Sound output, going to a transistor buffer, can be used as Output. An 
Apple II+ schematic (as included in the Apple II Reference Manual) is a 
good guide.

     The other half of the project is the software. If the Franklin 
2100 no longer includes ROM support for tape Load and Save-- which 
seems pretty likely-- the annotated ROM listing for the II+ (also 
included in the manual) can serve as a guide for writing a version you 
can load into RAM from disk.


Rubywand