Apple II info ?

From: Sam Ismail <dastar_at_wco.com>
Date: Tue Feb 10 21:46:13 1998

On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, Lawrence Walker wrote:

> I just picked up an AppleII and 2 FDDs with a bunch of add-ons
> at a local thrift store. The only Apple I have explored is my Mac+.
> Anyone able to identify the cards ?
>
> Grapple+ Printer Interface......... Serial, Parallel ??

A very nice parallel printer interface with a 64K buffer.

> Multiflex Tech ...Long card with kludged cable to an RCA male
> connector and another to a clothes-pin chip staddler labelled
> AP TC/14. Two labelled chips "Firmware" and "Char. Gen." (imagine
> this is a video card of some sort.)

An 80-column card (Apple ][ and ][+ computers came stock with 40 columns).

> CableTV kludge to a "SUP 'R' MOD CH.33 TV Interface Unit ??

This enabled Apple to comply the FCC requirements for a Class ? computing
device. This means you did in fact get an Apple ][ and not a ][+. Very
nice find, especially for a thrift store.

> It also has what I imagine is stock Ext. video (single RCA) and
> cassette (2 mini-pin i/o )

Correct. The RCA is for a monochrome monitor. The two 1/8" phone plugs
are for reading/writing data from/to cassette, as well as digitizing audio
(ask if you're interested).


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