23 Jul
2003
23 Jul
'03
9:51 a.m.
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, peter tremewen wrote:
I have had for some time in my collection some
bare Apple II mother
boards. I would love to test these and see if thery are working, shouldn't
be a problem for two of them, but the third seems to be missing the Bios. I
Apple ]['s didn't have "BIOS". They had ROM ;)
believe this board to be a "clone", It has
the Z80 mounted on board. How
many people where producing these boards?? Is there any chance of coming
There were dozens of clone manufacturers for the Apple ][.
across a BIOS chip for this M/Board?? If some one can
provide me with the
contents of the Eprom I can burn it from a file and test it if necasary.
You most likely don't need to go through all that trouble. Just take the
ROMs from any other Apple ][ motherboard and pop them into this one. For
minimal system operation you can just transfer ROM F8. For BASIC, you
also want ROM-D0, ROM-D8, ROM-E0, ROM-E8 and ROM-F0.
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