Re: Mystery cards, mystery disks, some questions, and a giveaway.

[rich12345 <aiiadict@gmail.com>]

On Jan 14, 9:05 pm, jeremym <jeremy.moskow...@gmail.com> wrote:
> And, what exactly, would someone use this thing for then? What's it's
> function? Thx !

as far as I know, it acts like a terminal.  You send characters
to it like you would to a printer

IE,

10 PR#4 :rem redirect output to the slot card is in
20 print "this appears on monitor connected to card"
30 pr#0 :rem redirect output to apple II video circuits
40 print "this appears on the apple II screen"


you could stack your primary monitor on top of a secondary
monitor, and end up with:

40 X 48 text

or

80 X 48 text

or put the secondary monitor to the right of your primary,
and you can have

80 X 24 text (Standard 40 column character set)

160 X 24 text (80 column size characters)


what would it be useful for?

viewing status of RAM, etc when primary monitor is displaying
graphics screen

extra wide text viewing, like for a data base, etc.

extra long text viewing, so you can see more of a document or program
displayed on video

I dunno what else you could use it for.  It was meant for the II or II
+ as far as I know, to get more text viewed on a video screen.


Rich