Help Identifying Parts?

[kilroy@gboro.rowan.edu (Dr Nancy's Sweetie)]

My brother is does consulting for people with Macs, and regularly goes
Dumpster Diving for Mac parts.  I've asked him to keep an eye out for
Apple 2 parts, and last weekend he gave me a boxful of stuff.

The problem is that I'm not entirely sure what to do with it; I'm not
even sure what some of it *is*.  Realising that Usenet is omniscient,
I thought I'd ask for e-mail describing what these items are, or how
to use them.  If you can point me at a good reference which may help
enlighten me, you can drop me a line and tell me that, too.

I couldn't find an FAQ list, so if there is one that might be useful as
well.

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?

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

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".

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.)

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.


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'.


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?


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
"Unfortunately, most programmers like to play with new toys.  I have many
 friends who, immediately upon buying a snakebite kit, would be tempted to
 throw the first person they see to the ground, tie the tourniquet on him,
 slash him with the knife, and apply suction to the wound."
                                 -- Jon Bentley, _Writing Efficient Programs_