Re: My New (Mac) Apple IIe

[carbide@egine.com]

Chuckles wrote:
> > Is anyone else here using an old Mac with a //e card?  I'm going to
> > have to brush up on how I can get the Mac to talk to my windows machine
> > - right now I've got it set up downstairs next to my wireless XP
> > laptop.
>
> I'm using a Color Classic with the IIe card, with both a 5.25" drive and
> the (much harder to find) 3.5" Unidisk drive attached.  I actually acquired
> the Color Classic on eBay to serve as a bridge for transferring data on
> floppies from the PC to a IIGS that I picked up on eBay, and went hunting
> for the IIe card and drives later just for the geek appeal of it all.
>

I have several Color Classics for these reasons- it makes a very
compact color IIe equipped with a hardisk and 3.5" drive, and eases
file transfers between PC's/Macs/Apple II's, and 5.25" and 3.5" disks.

You can also do a couple of mods- slide in the motherbd from a Mac 575
and you've got 040 cpu performance and you can still use the IIe card
(set memory to 24 bits).  This make the Color Classic a "Mystic", like
the Color Classic II which was only available in Japan. (Do a search
for "Color Classic" and "Mystic" to get the details on this.)

If you're handy with a soldering iron and dremel tool you can also
increase the Color Classic screen resolution to VGA. I verified that
the IIe card still displays correctly afterwards.  (Again, do a search
for "VGA mod" and "Color Classic" to get the details)

I've tried to find some Mac DOS or Windows emulation software that
would run on the Mystic, so I could have a Mac/PC/Apple II in one box,
but haven't so far...
-Paul