Apple II parts - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

6 Sep 1998

On  4 Sep 98 at 18:24, Sam Ismail wrote:

...
  It might be worth mentioning that Apple //e's
don't have a slot 0.  The
 "language card" (really just an additional 16K of bank-switched RAM) is
 built-in.  Also, on the //e slot 3 is tied in to the auxiliary slot, where
 normally RAM and 80-column boards go.  If you've got something in the aux.
 slot, you can't put anything in slot 3, with some exceptions.  For
 instance, I have an AE TransWarp accelerator board in my //e that has a
 3.3Mhz 6502 CPU which overrides the motherboard 6502 upon bootup.  This
 board is great in that it plugs into slot 3, in conjunction with my
 expanded 80-column card in the aux. slot, and therefore does not waste a
 slot. 
Can anyone explain the reason why Apple put the Aux slot directly in 
line with slot 3 on the European version of the IIe? For example, I 
have a full length Ramworks III board in the Aux slot and this 
completely obscures slot 3 so an accelerator so Sam's trick with the 
Transwarp will not work.

Phil

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