10 Jul
2005
10 Jul
'05
11:20 p.m.
>In a message dated 7/10/2005 10:22:10 PM Eastern
Daylight Time,
vcf at siconic.com >>writes:
>On Sun, 10 Jul 2005, Marvin Johnston wrote:
>> I found a couple of these in the dregs of the
bazaar remains, and am
>> curious what they do. Google showed they were used in the Apple IIe, but
>> that is all I've been able to find. Anyone have more information about
>> how they were used? Thanks!
>These sound vaguely familiar. I am pretty sure
they were used in
>conjunction with GEOS (a Berkeley Softworks product) on the Apple ][ to
>give it the IRQ support needed for that OS to run properly.
Hmmm, now that sounds familiar to me. Is it a tiny little card? If so, it did
indeed come with GEOS and you had to put it in the //e to get the mouse to
work. The copy of GEOS I got at the time had a mouse included and had an option
to get 3.5 disks which I did even though I only had 5.25 drives at the time.
My copy of GEOS is around here somewhere and I got several other BS
applications for it as well.