Apple II parts

From: Phil Beesley <PB14_at_leicester.ac.uk>
Date: Mon Sep 7 03:25:19 1998

On 4 Sep 98 at 18:24, Sam Ismail wrote:

> It might be worth mentioning that Apple //e's don't have a slot 0. The
> "language card" (really just an additional 16K of bank-switched RAM) is
> built-in. Also, on the //e slot 3 is tied in to the auxiliary slot, where
> normally RAM and 80-column boards go. If you've got something in the aux.
> slot, you can't put anything in slot 3, with some exceptions. For
> instance, I have an AE TransWarp accelerator board in my //e that has a
> 3.3Mhz 6502 CPU which overrides the motherboard 6502 upon bootup. This
> board is great in that it plugs into slot 3, in conjunction with my
> expanded 80-column card in the aux. slot, and therefore does not waste a
> slot.

Can anyone explain the reason why Apple put the Aux slot directly in
line with slot 3 on the European version of the IIe? For example, I
have a full length Ramworks III board in the Aux slot and this
completely obscures slot 3 so an accelerator so Sam's trick with the
Transwarp will not work.

Phil


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