Re: Mitac Apple 2 clone?

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

Jules wrote:

>well there's ten more wires leading to the comp than there are pins on
>the Apple bus connector, so I expect that slot expander appears just
>like a normal Apple 2 bus as far as cards are concerned. I don't know
>the wiring of the various card slots on a normal Apple to be able to
>figure out if ten extra wires is enough.

That should do it--there are only two slot-specific signals, IO Select
and Device Select.  Slot 7 (only) has a color reference signal, too.

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>Seems to work ok with a monitor in 40-col mode; I don't get a usable
>display using the 80-col connector but that might be the monitor I
>found in the cupboard not being capable rather than the Mitac itself.

You may not see anything until you do a "PR#3" (from Applesoft)
or "3 ctl-P" (from the monitor) to initialize the 80-column electronics.

>Not tried the disk interface yet - and yes I did see an Apple disk
>marked as having CP/M software on it when I was having a sort through
>things earlier so I'll try that.
>
>At least it looks hopeful so far anyway :-)

It sure does.

-michael

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