Micom 2000
Veteran Member
I have an Apple II Plus. From the additions the previous owner made, he/she was obviously in love with it. There is a plastic Data holder installed on the front as well as several other cards and mods, some of which I'm not sure of. One I do recognise is the UHF connector for TV, and an Orange Grappler + card' but there are several others I've never quite been able to identify. One is a socket plugged in to the game connector. It has a 6-blade socket which ceratainly doesn't fit any Apple mouse I've ever seen.
Another card labeled Multiflex Tech has an RCA output cable, a single wire connected to a point on the MB just behind an adjustable resister(?) behind the game socket. It also has a clip-on connector connected to a chip 9334, labelled with a stylized AP logo and below it TC14. All 3 of these connectors are connected to the card by a 5pin connector. The card has one chip labeled on a paper sticker Character Generator v8.0, another is labelled Firmware v8.0 . There is one large chip which does not seem to be a CPU and all the chips are socket-mounted.
Another card is labelled " Modem 80" and has 2 RJ-11 plugs at the keyboard end of the mother-board and a 40-trace edge-connector at the back. There are 1 green and 1 red LED in the center. And of course the Apple plug-in traces on the bottom. The upper RJ-11 socket is hand-labelled "modem" For me this doesn't compute. If it's a modem card why would it have the 2 RJ-11 sockets as well as the 40-pin connector socket. And the orientation of the 40-pin male edge connector to the rear for easy cable access ?
I took some pictures of the cards and motherboard, but so far my cheap camera doesn't give legible pics despite it's supposed 10 pixel abilities. And so far the shareware photo-viewers I downloaded for my new W2k OS are "whiz-bang", but with no "primitive" photo editing. Even the newer ACDC vers. for W2k has been rendered useless for common use.
Should no one recognize my descriptions I'll transfer the JPGs to one of my W98s with a simple logical processing program and upload them.
I'm reminded of a great line in an old movie. "I don't need your steenking (xxxxxxxx)."
(xxxxxxx) meaning to me "IMPROVED modern graphics processing".
Lawrence
Another card labeled Multiflex Tech has an RCA output cable, a single wire connected to a point on the MB just behind an adjustable resister(?) behind the game socket. It also has a clip-on connector connected to a chip 9334, labelled with a stylized AP logo and below it TC14. All 3 of these connectors are connected to the card by a 5pin connector. The card has one chip labeled on a paper sticker Character Generator v8.0, another is labelled Firmware v8.0 . There is one large chip which does not seem to be a CPU and all the chips are socket-mounted.
Another card is labelled " Modem 80" and has 2 RJ-11 plugs at the keyboard end of the mother-board and a 40-trace edge-connector at the back. There are 1 green and 1 red LED in the center. And of course the Apple plug-in traces on the bottom. The upper RJ-11 socket is hand-labelled "modem" For me this doesn't compute. If it's a modem card why would it have the 2 RJ-11 sockets as well as the 40-pin connector socket. And the orientation of the 40-pin male edge connector to the rear for easy cable access ?
I took some pictures of the cards and motherboard, but so far my cheap camera doesn't give legible pics despite it's supposed 10 pixel abilities. And so far the shareware photo-viewers I downloaded for my new W2k OS are "whiz-bang", but with no "primitive" photo editing. Even the newer ACDC vers. for W2k has been rendered useless for common use.
Should no one recognize my descriptions I'll transfer the JPGs to one of my W98s with a simple logical processing program and upload them.
I'm reminded of a great line in an old movie. "I don't need your steenking (xxxxxxxx)."
(xxxxxxx) meaning to me "IMPROVED modern graphics processing".
Lawrence
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