POLKOSNI@QCVAX.BITNET (01/16/89)
I am interested in doing some hardware projects with my enhanced Apple //e...is
there anyone around who has had experience with the innards of a //e and can
offer some suggestions? Maybe some DtoA conversion, AtoD conversion, maybe
plans for homemade cards, interfacing with another microprocessor, anything
interesting in general.
>walter<gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn ) (01/16/89)
In article <8901152335.aa11657@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> POLKOSNI@QCVAX.BITNET writes: >I am interested in doing some hardware projects with my enhanced Apple //e...is >there anyone around who has had experience with the innards of a //e and can >offer some suggestions? Maybe some DtoA conversion, AtoD conversion, maybe >plans for homemade cards, interfacing with another microprocessor, anything >interesting in general. Your best bet is to look in really OLD computer hobbyist magazines (pre-"A+"). Of course the technical reference manual for your Apple would be valuable insofar as determining what all the signals are, and what the peripheral slot addressing conventions are. I don't know if it's still available (probably not, now that Apple is "corporate"), but Apple used to sell a "Hobby/Prototyping Board" (Product Code A2B0001X) that was useful for wiring your own peripheral interfaces. The documentation accompanying the board explains the slot signals and I/O programming conventions, although there are some newer additional conventions (found in various Apple Technical Notes) that should also be followed for maximum utility. A (British, I think, maybe "BSR") company used to, and perhaps still does, market interfaces and remote sensors and controllers under the designation "X10". Real handy for automating your house..
shaver@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Dave Shaver) (01/18/89)
>POLKOSNI@QCVAX.BITNET writes: >I am interested in doing some hardware projects >[...] anything interesting in general. I highly recommend this book: Understanding the Apple II by Jim Sather IBSN: 0-912985-01-1 Published by: Quality Software 21601 Marilla St Chatsworth, CA Lots of good hardware explaination and some projects. There is also a book by the same author called "Understanding the Apple //e". Also published by QS. /\ Dave Shaver -=*=- CS Systems Support Group, Iowa State University \\ UUCP: hplabs!hp-lsd!atanasoff!shaver \/ Internet: shaver@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu