rhohler wrote:
> On Nov 3, 7:48 pm, Steven Hirsch  wrote:
>> sfahey wrote:
>>>   To: Steven Hirsch
>>>   Re: Re: Returning Apple User
>>>   By: Steven Hirsch to comp.sys.apple2 on Mon Nov 03 2008 07:47 am
>>>  > Otherwise, probably best to stick with something like an
Applicard clone.
>>>  > That's a vanilla Z80 design with its own 64k bank of
memory.  I do have the
>>>  > schematics for it and it's all 74-series jellybean logic.
>>> Wasn't this card expandable to 128K with an add-on module?
Wasn't there some
>>> kind of additional expansion for these also? My memory is very
fuzzy, but iirc,
>>> there were 2 different things you could add to these, RAM and
something else.
>> Yes, it was.  You had to stack (2) little daughter cards on the
headers at the
>> front of the Applicard.  There was an SIO board that could connect there as
>> well.  That was never produced commercially, but Ray Klein (who I
believe also
>> designed the original SoftCard) did do a board layout and sent
these to folks
>> who asked nicely.  I think I have a couple of these somewhere.
>>
>> Even rarer was the Apple /// variant of the Applicard which was to form the
>> basis of an Apple IIc CP/M add-on.  I think I may have one of these also.
>>
>> Haven't thought about this stuff for years.  Really takes me back!
>>
>> Steve
> 
> The link below has an interesting read about Ray Klein, the AppliCard
> and the proposed IIc version.

Yup. John had given me a heads-up on that and I convinced Ray to send me some 
information (and, I think, a bare board) on the A3 applicard.

Will have to do some digging this weekend and see if I can turn it up.

Steve
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