Apple Turnover?

From: Louis Schulman <louiss_at_gate.net>
Date: Mon May 28 21:32:30 2001

On Mon, 28 May 2001 18:09:25 -0700 (PDT), Vintage Computer Festival
wrote:

#
#I have here an ISA card labelled "APPLE TURNOVER" on the lower inner
part
#of the board (on the inside of the edge connector" and "(C) 1984
VERTEX".
#
#It has what looks to be a standard floppy edge connector/pin connector
#(either can be used).
#
#I'm thinking (and hoping) this is a card that allows one to read Apple
][
#floppies with a standard PC drive on the PC.
#
#Anyone ever heard of this? Am I right? Does it require software? If
so,
#anyone got it?
#
No, you are wrong. This card is the interface to the Vertex Vortex
Convection Oven. Special data base software accesses a particular
recipe, and then sends the cooking instructions to the Vertex Vortex.
Apple turnovers were a specialty of the oven, which was never
commercially successful. The oven had a robotic arm to accomplish the
flipping of the turnover, but the arm had a tendency to get stuck in a
programming loop, which would eventually flip the entire oven off the
counter.

Sorry, Sellam

Louis
Received on Mon May 28 2001 - 21:32:30 BST