more junk

From: Lawrence LeMay <lemay_at_cs.umn.edu>
Date: Wed Nov 10 17:23:59 1999

> > The NCR i mentioned earlier was too heavy, 80 pounds or so, so i left it.
> >
> > The apple ][ plus has, among other mods, a modification near the keyboard
> > and speaker. A raised board with 2 IC's and a socket, its connected to one
> > of the IC sockets on the main board, plus it has a 4 wire cable with connector.
> > For some reason this is not plugged in. Am I correct it guessing this might
> > be a lowercase modification, and that its unplugged to restore normal
>
> I don't know if this is what you've got, but I remember one of the 80
> column video cards for the Apple ][ had a kludge-board like that to pick
> up some timing signals from the motherboard. You pulled a chip from the
> motherboard, stuck it into the klugdgeboard and then pluged the
> kludgeboard into the (now-empty) IC socket. The 80 column card went in an
> expansion slot (slot 3 IIRC) as usual, and a ribbon cable linked it to
> the kludgeboard.
>
> > operation? any idea what the correct way to plug the connector in is? It
>
> Where do you think it goes. The 4 pin plugs in the rear right corner of
> the motherboard are video outputs (+ power lines), normally used for an
> RF modulator. I would be _very_ supprised if it connected there.

There is also a 4 pin connector in the lower left corner, ie, as far from
the video as is possible.

>
> -tony
>
Received on Wed Nov 10 1999 - 17:23:59 GMT