davej@uw-entropy.ms.washington.edu (Dave Jenner) (03/06/89)
I am seeking information about two aspects of the Apple IIc for a friend: 1) Is it possible to expand memory beyond 128K on the motherboard, or do you need an expansion card; if you need an expansion card, are there "clone" unpopulated (cheap) cards that you can stuff with your own 64Kbit or 256Kbit chips? 2) Is it possible to use the old 3.5in 400K disk drives that were used with the Macintosh? Thanks for any response; if I get a lot of them I will summarize. Dave Jenner (206) 543-6182, 543-2888 (Message) Department of Astronomy, FM-20 BITNET: davej@uwaphast SPAN: 42169::59667::DAVEJ University of Washington UUCP: ...!uw-beaver!uw-entropy!phastvax!davej Seattle, WA 98195 INTERNET: davej@entropy.ms.washington.edu -- Dave Jenner (206) 543-6182, 543-2888 (Message) Department of Astronomy, FM-20 BITNET: davej@uwaphast SPAN: 42169::59667::DAVEJ University of Washington UUCP: ...!uw-beaver!uw-entropy!phastvax!davej Seattle, WA 98195 INTERNET: davej@entropy.ms.washington.edu
halp@TCGOULD.TN.CORNELL.EDU ("Bruce P. Halpern") (03/08/89)
1. Memory A motherboard that has expansion slots or a port on it is needed. I believe the //c+ comes with the port. I have my Apple motherboard upgraded to one that could take more memory by an Apple dealer a few years ago. At present I have about 384K. Applied Engineering was selling memory expansion boards for //c. I'm not sure if they still are. 2. Disk drives No Macintosh drive can be used with the //c. An Apple Unidisk 3.5 or equivalent is required. ****DISCLAMER: My comments, etc., are my own shakey opinions ******** | Bruce P. Halpern Psychology & Neurobiology & Behavior Cornell Ithaca | | INTERNET:halp@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu BITNET:D57J@CORNELLA D57J@CRNLVAX5| | UUCP:{vax135,rochester,decvax}!cornell!batcomputer!halp | | PHONE: 607-255-6433 Uris Hall, Cornell U., Ithaca, NY 14853-7601 |
halp@TCGOULD.TN.CORNELL.EDU ("Bruce P. Halpern") (03/09/89)
Apple supplied (?supplies?) a Apple //c Memory Expansion Card for the //c. It comes with 256K (which, with the built-in 128K, gives a total of 384K RAM) and can hold up to 1 Mb. This card was (?is) a dealer-installed option. Early //c do not have a connector for this card, but later //c do. AppleWorks 2.0 and above will automatically use this additional memory, writing most of AppleWorks (but not printer routines) to it, and taking the rest for desktop. With the base 384K RAM, you get a 250K AppleWorks desktop (until you start adding memory-resident Timeout enhancements). ****DISCLAMER: My comments, etc., are my own shakey opinions ******** | Bruce P. Halpern Psychology & Neurobiology & Behavior Cornell Ithaca | | INTERNET:halp@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu BITNET:D57J@CORNELLA D57J@CRNLVAX5| | UUCP:{vax135,rochester,decvax}!cornell!batcomputer!halp | | PHONE: 607-255-6433 Uris Hall, Cornell U., Ithaca, NY 14853-7601 |