Re: How much of a ][ is needed to twitch?

["mdj" <mdj.mdj@gmail.com>]

On Feb 12, 12:59 pm, "Alex Freed" <a...@mirrow.com> wrote:

> There *MAY* be a different explaination. Boot ROM at Cx00 is
> only 256 bytes, so space is at premium. Better not to put a "soft"
> delay there.

Since the boot sequence is activated by the autostart firmware in the
main system ROM, and autostart was added some time after the release
of the Disk ][ this seems unlikely. Such a delay could've easily been
added to the autostart routine.

On a pre-autostart ][, such a delay is not required, since user
interaction is necessary to initiate a disk boot.

I'd imagine that Michaels hypothesis is the correct one - that the
hardware reset pulse in the original Apple ][ is too short. It's
possible that later revisions of the mainboard corrected the problem,
since there were after all several versions, and it's an easy change
to make.

Matt