Re: Help Identifying Parts?

[kls0@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Kent Squires )]

kilroy@gboro.rowan.edu (Dr Nancy's Sweetie) writes:



>1) An expansion card labeled "Apple Computer Mouse Interface 670-0030".
>   I've figured out what it is, but what kind of mouse goes with it?
>   How do I wrote programs to use it?

An Apple mouse, of course :)


>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.)

What kind of port does the card have? DB-25? You can use it to run printers/
modems.

>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.

Wasn't this a memory expansion for the ][+?

>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".

I believe the 341- chips are unenhanced ROMs for the //e, but I could be
wrong.  I was looking at my unenhanced //e chips, and I don't get exact
matches, but very similar.  I've got: 342-0135-A, 341-0134-B, 342-0133-A,
342-0134-A,342-0133-A, 342-0133-A (looks like I've got doubles of some :).


> 9) A 40-pin chip with a funny `S' on it, "8127", and "SY6502".

My guess this is a 6502 (unenhanced //e) CPU chip.

>10) A set of "342-xxxx-A" chips, where xxxx is `0265', `0134', and `0133'.

See my list above :) Again, my guess is they're unenhanced //e ROMs

>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?

Use the Custom Printer setup in AW (what version are you using?) and then
you'll have to get the printer manual to find out the Escape codes needed
for printing boldface, underline, italics, different CPI.


>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.

Hell, I was weened on a //e :)


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