Unknown Apple 2 cards - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

6 Jun 2003

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   yep -
someone's found the user manual for me (complete with details on 
 how to hack the card to work with 27128 chips - ahhh, the good old days 
 of computing!) 
 Hey cool.  Are these in electronic form?  I'd like a copy. 
yep, see: http://home.iprimus.com.au/figjams/apple2/AP-64e.pdf

Initial tests on the card seem to show it's working anyway. I need to dig out
the Apple manuals themselves to see how to use the monitor, in order to look at
data I've read from EPROM chips plugged into the card (just to verify that it's
reading OK)

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   need to hook
one of the Apple systems up to the PC somehow so it can
 communicate with the outside world. Probably be via serial, but if I 
 had a SCSI card in the Apple in theory it could share a SCSI bus with 
 the PC would would be interesting :)  (I've only ever seen that done 
 between two identical modern SGI boxes - not between hardware with a 
 20 year time difference!) 
 I don't see why it wouldn't work though. 
I imagine the controller in the Apple needs to appear as a device on the SCSI
bus; I believe that rules out some of the available cards at least. Plus the ID
of either the Apple or PC controller would have to change from the default
obviously - I think this can be done with all the Adaptec PC cards I have, not
sure about the various Apple cards that are available. Would be an interesting
experiment to try anyway.

cheers

Jules