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From: kenyon@nmtvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.apple
Subject: Re: Apple IIC to Apple IIE Bus Convertor
Message-ID: <886@nmtvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 29-Nov-85 12:20:11 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 29 12:20:11 1985
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Reply-To: kenyon@nmtvax.UUCP (Rob Kenyon -A stranger in a stranger land)
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In article <> todd@mips.UUCP (Todd Basche) writes:

>He was told (By Apple) of the existence of a company called :
>" SICO Consumer Electronics " .
>They are purported to make a Apple IIC to Apple IIE convertor.
>This would allow you to have a chassis that you could populate with
>Apple IIE cards and cable over to your Apple IIC .
>
>Sounds like a good idea...

That could be very difficult to do.  It would really play havoc with
programs written for the //c as many of the internal locations are moved.
Things aren't in normal locations as though they were in a slot.
In a //c, apple knew where everything was going to be (you can't just throw
in a 3.6M 6502) and it appears that io rom swap space doesn't (on a //
you can decide which card to look at by telling the others to get out and
swaping in the ones you want.)  This doesn't appear to happen on a //c.
(Note that I used the word "appear."  I haven't hacked that hard on a //c, 
but there is something funky in the roms.

If this device does exist, please let me know.  I have a friend with a //c
that thought it was all he'd ever need.  He was wrong.  Even with Z-Ram 
(Z-80 and 1/2 M ram) it isn't enough.  He got a subscription to BYTE.  I'm
afraid he's going to go MS-DOS if I can't save him...


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Robert Kenyon
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