Re: Applied Engineering 16bit Option

[scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter)]

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In article <Zgseg.828$VE1.301@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com>,
Sean Fahey  <a2fan@hotmail.com> wrote:
>heh - try this...
>
>Take an Apple IIe with a 16bit option card and install a ZipGS (you'll 
>have to make a flippy cable to reach the socket) and viola - you've got 
>a DMA compatible, 16bit capable Apple IIe with cache running at whatever 
>speed your ZipGS is rated at.

Have you tried this?  Did it work?  It'd be sweet if it did.

Back in the day, I was given a 16-bit option card.  I popped it in and ran
with it for a day or two.  I even cobbled together a version of SoftDAC that
used '816 instructions to access all of the memory on my RamWorks without
bank-switching.  In the end, though, my 10-MHz RocketChip was more useful
than an '816 running at 1 MHz.  If I had known that a ZipGS would've worked,
I would've tried it out.

Nowadays, I have a ZipGS, but the 16-bit option card got sold in '92 or '93
when I upgraded my IIe to a IIGS.  (The RocketChip got sold around the same
time, too.)  I have a IIe once again, and a RamWorks II for it, but no
accelerator or 16-bit card for it.

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