Apple ProFILE Help Needed

From: Allison J Parent <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
Date: Tue May 18 18:41:23 1999

<> 5) There is no inherent 'format' command in the ProFile controller logic
<> To enable formatting capability you have to install a special chip
<> (according to rumour: a Z-80 with a piggyback EPROM) into a vacant socke
<
<Much more likely to be a single-chip microcontroller. Some of those had
<'development' versions which took a piggyback EPROM. The Z8 (not Z80) was
<one such, I think.

One of two parts it can be. Z8 (NOT z80 compatable) or a NEC 78PG11 (looks
like a z80 registerwise but it's not).

<It probably won't help much, because you'd need the code in the EPROM,
<though.

I have data for the 78pg11 bit it would be hard to scan half of it (brain
locked).

Allison
Received on Tue May 18 1999 - 18:41:23 BST