Apple Turnover?

From: Merle K. Peirce <at258_at_osfn.org>
Date: Tue May 29 06:56:51 2001

I preferred the later Cheese Puff variant.

On Mon, 28 May 2001, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:

> On Mon, 28 May 2001, Louis Schulman wrote:
> > 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
>
> Thank you.
> That explains a lot.
> I never saw the source code for the low-level (sector) routines, and the
> docs that Vertex supplied me with were wrong about register usage and,
> of course, which registers were or were not preserved.
> Now it turns out that we were being asked to do disk format conversion
> with an oven controller!
>
> The docs had some doodles on them of slices of pie (labeled "sector"), but
> the 300 RPM rotational speed of the turntable, and the lack of a head-load
> solenoid could account for the production of cobbler out of what should
> have been pies.
>
>
> BTW, the later ones were simply called "Turnover" after Apple's trademark
> people came down on Vertex over "Apple Turnover".
>
> --
> Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin_at_xenosoft.com
>
>

M. K. Peirce

Rhode Island Computer Museum, Inc.
Shady Lea, Rhode Island

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