Berkeley Softworks IRQ Manager Board - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

11 Jul 2005

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 >In a message dated 7/10/2005 10:22:10 PM Eastern
Daylight Time,  
vcf at siconic.com >>writes:
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 >On Sun, 10 Jul 2005, Marvin Johnston wrote: 
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 >> 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! 
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 >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. 