Apple IIe memory board

Yeah ... I have to remove the top to get at the PSU, so I look at the cards. The one I took apart today has a short 64K card, from some 3rd party vendor, that I've never seen before. A typical IIe costs on the order of $5-10 and I've yet to see any interesting cards. I'd take an 8" FDC or a SCSI board myself, BTW, just to say I have one. I've got 5-1/4" and 3-1/2" drives for these puppies, though I've yet to try the 3-1/2" types on a IIe. These things are a lot better-built than the ][+, but I guess that's progress. I do save the socketed standard parts and LSI's, though I don't save the custom parts or keyboard, generally. I may save a few keyboards, though, since I'm currenty working an SBC that could conceivably benefit from one. The PSU's are very adequate for a number of applications since they supply +12, +5, -5 and -12. Being completely enclosed, they're handy for powering protypes and demo equipment. It's not unusual to use a dozen or two of them to power a dozen or two specific functions. I'm in the "proof-of-concept" business, having prepared front-end prototypes for over 20 years. It's not unusual to use 20 independent microcontrollers to demonstrate a concept implemented in software, that later ends up in a single board, or even a single ASIC. Having them on lots of separate boards makes it easy to partition the tasks and align the processing bandwidth with the conceptual boundaries. As the various tasks move from board to board over the evolution of a project, performance is often improved or reduced, and that gives information not otherwise obtainable in a short-cycle development effort. Dick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chad Fernandez" <fernande(a)internet1.net> To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org> Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2002 9:32 PM Subject: Re: Apple IIe memory board such PSU. extract anything the