Re: Strange expansion card?

[cvotter@prairienet.org (Gary Sutton)]

Will Baguhn (spqr@ruth.uucp) wrote:
: ab616@cfn.cs.dal.ca (Tony Cianfaglione) writes:

: | Kathleen Branin (bran0097@maroon.tc.umn.edu) wrote:
: | : I picked up (in a load of apple II "junk")  a "Q-68 board" by "Qwerty Inc."
: | 
: | : It has a 68008 cpu on it, a bit of rom, and a bit of static ram... any idea
: | 
: | : it was installed on a IIe,  the date codes on the chips put it at about 
: | : 83'-84'.
: | 
: | 
: | There is no such thing as Apple II 'junk'; just good used Apple II 
: | miscellanea.
: | 
: | Tony.

: actually, there _IS_ Apple II junk.

: i don't know that it was built ever.... ;)

: however, an accelerator running at .5 Mhz (decelerator?) wouldn't serve 
: much usefulness for everyday work (debugging, maybe).

: hmm, a decelerator sounds kinda neat now that i think about it.

: other "bad ideas":

: game port parallel driver (doable?  yes.  touchy?  VERY.)
: 20 column display card
: 3" disk drive (Amdek made one, didn't they?)
: 9 track tape drive (it'd be interesting, tho...)

How about these ideas?

SCSI cassette drive for the GS
Timex Sinclair-1000 emulator card
Altair Emulator
ENIAC Emulator


Cat VonOtter