Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!bu.edu!m2c!risky.ecs.umass.edu!dime!gray From: gray@ibis.cs.umass.edu (Lyle Gray) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: IIe to Enhanced IIe Message-ID: <32249@dime.cs.umass.edu> Date: 19 Jun 91 10:47:17 GMT References: <9106190519.AA09423@apple.com> Sender: news@dime.cs.umass.edu Reply-To: gray@ibis.cs.umass.edu (Lyle Gray) Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst Lines: 23 In article <9106190519.AA09423@apple.com> $CSB205@LSUVM.BITNET (Mark Orr) writes: > >Going from an old //e to an enhanced //e requires a motherboard swap. I _assume_ you mean that it requires a swap on the motherboard, not a swap _of_ the motherboard. I only had to swap a couple (I'm not sure how many, it was several years ago) chips on the motherboard to enhance my //e (come to think of it, I still have the old 6502 chip around here somewhere). >The Enhanced //e motherboard contains a r65c02 processor, and changes the >ROMs to support Mousetext characters. I'm pretty sure this can be done for >less than $100 at your Apple dealer, but you can probably get it cheaper >at a mail order place - like Roger Coats - or maybe that used component list >posted here a couple of days ago. It's a 65C102, but that's minor... It all makes the //e look a lot like a big //c. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lyle H. Gray Internet (personal): gray@cs.umass.edu Quodata Corporation Phone: (203) 728-6777, FAX: (203) 247-0249 --------------------------------------------------------------------------