Re: What's Next for the Apple II?

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Chris Morse wrote:

>I wonder about the difficulty of designing a clock/calendar card that
>also generated interrupts at 60Hz. Would that be easy to design? 
>I can't imagine it would be much more difficult than some of the other
>projects like CFFA, IDE, and Ethernet cards.  Probably wouldn't be
>very expensive to build, either... at least component-wise..
>
>I bet a lot of people would be interested in that.. I would.. and they
>would probably sell well on eBay too..
>
>Is there a place to get "bread boards" suitable for the //e?
>Or, probably better, adapters like the one in this picture:
>http://s.guillard.free.fr/Apple2IDE/proto-top.jpg

If you want VBL (60Hz) interrupts on a //e, your best bet is to
install a mouse card.  Readily available on eBay fpr $5 to $10,
that's pretty hard to beat.

-michael

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