Re: expansion on the //c plus?

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

In article <2q8g1n$npn@hermes.unt.edu>,
Phillip "Ty" Young <tyoung@jove.acs.unt.edu> wrote:
> Hi.  Think I got a //c plus now.  Just have to go and get it.  Hey, what 
> expansion possibilities are there on that machine?

Roughly the same as the IIc.  I've never seen a IIc+, but I have read
the technical reference manual.  There is an internal modem slot, but
no modem was ever made for it.  The memory expansion connector is the
same pinout as the later models of the IIc, but requires faster I/O
than the Apple IIc memory expansion card can support (or so I've heard).

> Are there HD's available for this machine, with its way-more-cool
> disk drive electronics?

Nope.  Exactly the same as the IIc, i.e. the Chinook CT-20, and
derivatives (now sold by Sequential Systems).

You can use an Apple 3.5 Drive (the internal drive is basically an
Apple 3.5), but otherwise the disk port is identical to the IIc (it
doesn't have the external interrupt input, and supports two external
5.25" drives).  You can still connect UniDisk 3.5 drives or other
intelligent SmartPort devices.