13 May
1998
13 May
'98
12:49 a.m.
On 13 May 98 at 10:24, Sam Ismail wrote:
I'll have to check the exact details but from the quick glance the
Protocol Converter had something to do with handling the
mapping of ports/slots on the //c. The SmartPort was the same as the
Protocol Converter just enhanced.
If nobody else replies before I get home this evening, I'll check
what they say about the ROMs and the Protocol Converter/SmartPort and
let you know.
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David Williams - Computer Packrat
dlw(a)trailingedge.com
http://www.trailingedge.com
On Wed, 13 May 1998, David Williams wrote:
Yes, that stuck me as odd too, that was a lot for what use to be
only 16k. I'll have to go back and check the Apple //c Tech Ref at
home, it says they upped the ROM from 128k to 256k. This is the
hardback series of books Apple put out through Addison-Wesley.
UniDisk //c : ID Byte = 0
Added 3.5" support
Increased ROM to 256K
What ROM would this be? The Apple ][ basically had 16K of ROM not
counting the 2K of ROM space that each peripheral card had. In the
//c that would give it maybe another 10K for the different built in
ports (serial, mouse, 3.5"...) New version
of Protocol Converter called SmartPort
What is this SmartPort Protocol Converter?