Re: Help Identifying Parts?

[danb@pro-newton.cts.com (Dan Brown)]

In <1993Dec3.024641.25555@gboro.rowan.edu>
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?

        It uses an Apple //e mouse, which is the same as the Apple //c mouse
and the mice used on the early Macs (Mac Plus or older).  Try finding the
authentic //e mouse, as it should also include some programming documentation.

>2) An unlabeled card from `Microsci', with two ten-pin ports labeled DRV2
>   and DRV1.

        Sounds like a floppy drive interface card, but those ports should be
20-pin ones if that's the case.  It should control two Disk II (or
compatible) 5.25 drives.

>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".

        I'm guessing this is a parallel card, but I'm not sure.

>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.)

        It sounds like you're missing a cable from the card to the back panel
of the computer.  If this is a Super Serial Card, it can be pretty useful. 
If it's the older Apple card, I'm told it's pretty slow.

> 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".

        Three ROMs.  Probably the CD, EF, and Video ROMs, but I don't know
which is which.

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

        a 6502 CPU.

>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?

        The latest version of AppleWorks is 4.0, and it's pretty neat.  If
you've got under 256K of RAM in your //e, though, version 3.0 is probably a
better bet.  I'm not sure whether either one includes drivers for LQ-series
printers.

>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.

        Why would we do that?  I just bought another "obsolete" GS...

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