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> 2) An unlabeled card from `Microsci', with two ten-pin ports labeled DRV2
>    and DRV1.
> 
A disk drive interface card.  The ports should be twenty-pin, not ten, to be
compatible with the Apple Disk II drives.  Since Microsci 5.25 drives (a2) 
were compativle with the Disk II interface, I expect the reverse to be true.

> 3) A card from "SSM Microcomputer Products", with `APIO' in one corner.  It
>    has two 26-pin ports, one labeled "general" and one labeled "centronics".
> 
A parallel interface card, usually used for printers.  I have a manual here
somewhere.

> 4) An Apple Serial Interface, which presumably can be used on stuff which
>    hooks to the computer via a serial port.  But what kind of stuff?
>    (I've got a 2400 baud modem, but none of its cables look like they'll
>    fit the card.)
> 
An apple serial interface board, pre-dates the  super-serial card.  I believe
it was more suitable for serial printers, while the apple communications
card was preferred for modem use.

> 5) A card from Wesper Micro Systems, labeled "Wizard -- 16K memory".  I'd
>    guess it was a memory expansion card, but it includes a cable and a plug
>    which aren't on the card in my //e.
A 16k 'language' card for the Apple II+.  The cable and plug plugged into one
of the sockets for the 48k ram chips.

> 
> 
> There's also a batch of chips, which don't look like any of the ones already
> in my //e, or on the spare //e motherboard which was in my box o' stuff:
> 
>  6) A 28-pin chip that says "NEC D27C64C", "341-0303A", and "(C)Apple 84".
> 
>  7) Another just like (6), but it says "341-0304A".
> 
>  8) And another which says "D2764D" and "341-0135B".
> 
>  9) A 40-pin chip with a funny `S' on it, "8127", and "SY6502".
> 
> 10) A set of "342-xxxx-A" chips, where xxxx is `0265', `0134', and `0133'.
Some of these chips are the ones replaced by the IIe enhancement kit.  I think
the 134, 135 replaced the 303,304, but I'd have to look to be sure.

> 
> 
> And as long as I've got you on the line...
> 
> Dave also had an Epson LQ-860 in a tool shed, which he said I could have
> provided I carried it away.  I plugged it into the Grappler+ printer
> interface, and it seems to work pretty well when accessed from Basic
> programs.  (The print quality is astonishingly good.)  But when I go into
> the setup screen in AppleWorks, the `LQ' line of Epson printers isn't on the
> list.  None of the other Epson settings work with this printer (I tried all
> four of them).
> 
> I've called Epson (not gotten through yet) to get an instruction book and
> try to set it up with the `custom' setting, but I noticed that my manuals
> for AW all say "1983" on them.  Maybe it would be better to just get a newer
> version, or get an entirely different word processor (I don't use a database
> or spreadsheet very much).  Can anybody give me some recommendations?
Update Appleworks to version 1.3 of newer, use custom printer setup.

> 
> 
> Oh, don't bother sending me mail telling me that the //e is obsolete.  It can
> do what I need done, it runs all of my old games, and it only cost me $50.
> 
> 
> Darren F Provine / kilroy@gboro.rowan.edu

  --Steve                         steven nelson@uiowa.edu