Messages in this thread | | | From | John Bradford <> | Subject | Re: Open source hardware | Date | Fri, 17 Jan 2003 10:04:41 +0000 (GMT) |
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> Oh, BTW remember the Apple ][? One could get all hardware docs for that > bocs, schematics for the entire circuit, the works. That made it very easy > to build clones, and some people did that, turned out, those were not much > cheaper that apple's original box....
Yeah, the docs were on fold-out sheets at the back of the manual! I think I even had schematics for the floppy disk controllers. the Apple ][ was a really nice machine - I remember I had, (infact, still have, although I haven't powered it on for around 10 years!), the following peripherals in mine:
Slot 0 - Language card Slot 1 - 16K RAM card Slot 2 - Empty Slot 3 - Z80 processor Slot 4 - Third disk controller Slot 5 - Second disk controller Slot 6 - First disk controller Slot 7 - PAL encoder
I only had four floppy drives, so the third disk controller was never used. I didn't have an 80-column card, nor a serial interface :-(, but I did have *** 96K *** of RAM!!! Truely the power of a mainframe on the desktop... Almost.
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