On Mon, 28 May 2001, Vintage Computer Festival wrote: Heard of it?? When I closed my office, I got rid of several hundred boxes, manuals, and defective boards. It connects between an XT floppy controller and drive. You need to use both the edge connector and the dual row header, just like with a CP Option board. Some drives work better than others. Tandons worked OK, Teacs were harder to make work. There were also some boards that were defective. Vertex commissioned one fellow to design and build the hardware. He felt cheated. They commisioned another fellow to write the low level sector routines. He felt cheated. They commissioned me to write the high level routines. I felt cheated. At the time that they went under, they owed me enough money (for that and when they distributed Xeno-Copy) that I could have bought a house outright in silicon valley. The software that I wrote handled reading and writing Apple-DOS, Apple CP/M, PRO-DOS, and Apple P-system. I'll try to locate a copy and put a disk in one of your boxes. -- Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com

On Mon, 28 May 2001 18:09:25 -0700 (PDT), Vintage Computer Festival wrote: # #I have here an ISA card labelled "APPLE TURNOVER" on the lower inner part #of the board (on the inside of the edge connector" and "(C) 1984 VERTEX". # #It has what looks to be a standard floppy edge connector/pin connector #(either can be used). # #I'm thinking (and hoping) this is a card that allows one to read Apple ][ #floppies with a standard PC drive on the PC. # #Anyone ever heard of this? Am I right? Does it require software? If so, #anyone got it? # No, you are wrong. This card is the interface to the Vertex Vortex Convection Oven. Special data base software accesses a particular recipe, and then sends the cooking instructions to the Vertex Vortex. Apple turnovers were a specialty of the oven, which was never commercially successful. The oven had a robotic arm to accomplish the flipping of the turnover, but the arm had a tendency to get stuck in a programming loop, which would eventually flip the entire oven off the counter. Sorry, Sellam Louis