Apple II APL Board?

From: Tony Duell <ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
Date: Wed Apr 30 18:31:03 2003

> I picked up a board for the Apple II this last weekend, and am curious
> if anyone knows anything about it? The silkscreening on the boards is
> "APL BOARD", and besides an EPROM (Fairchild M88518H?) with "APL"

Fujitsu, I thionk, not Fairchild.

> stamped on it, it has what appears to be a centronics printer cabled
> attached.
>

For some reason, Epson printer interfaces were called APL boards
(APLication boards?). I think this is just a standard Epson MX80 (etc)
interface for the Apple, and has nothing to do with the language of that
name.

-tony
Received on Wed Apr 30 2003 - 18:31:03 BST