Ian Nixon escribió:
Will try when the TV is free (Mom's currently watching something O:-) )
Why not go to the Salvation Army store and get a cheap 5" TV? I have
one, and works great when I don't have any TV/composite monitor at hand
for my older computers :-) .
It *says* //e, but I've heard from another person that the enhanced
model has a keypad and the "Enhanced" light is not next to the " ~ "
key (Bottom left...) ...
No, it isn't the "enhanced", but the "platinum". There are three
different models of //e: the original ("unenhanced") one from 1983, the
enhanced from 1985, and the platinum from 1987 (IIRC). The differences
between the unenhanced and the enhanced are a new processor (65C02) with
more instructions, a ROM with 30% faster 80-column code and better II+
compatibility, and a new character generator ROM able to generate 32
graphics characters (the "MouseText"), used to simulate graphical
interfaces in text mode. This revision was made mainly to make the //e
level with the features introduced with the //c. The unenhanced and the
enhanced //e are almost identical physically (the only difference being
four chips in the motherboard), but you can tell them by looking at the
startup screen, or by looking at the little sticker that covers the
power-on light: in the enhanced, it reads "65C02", but is empty in the
unenhanced.
The platinum is a horse of a different color. Functionally, it's almost
identical to the enhanced, but physically it's completely different.
First, it comes in a platinum case (yes, the same color as many
Macintoshes, including the late Pluses). It includes a numeric keypad,
and in addition of the two Apple keys, it has an Option key. The
motherboard is also a lot different: it has a lot less chips (instead of
eight 64x1 RAM chips, it has just two 64x4 chips, and instead of two 8
Kb ROM chips, it has only one of 16 Kb) and more open space.
Furthermore, they say that almost all platinum //es shipped with a 64 Kb
memory expansion board installed by default.
And, how much memory do you have?
64k.
If you intend to use your //e just as a gaming machine, you may leave it
that way. Most games run with just 48 or 64 Kb of RAM, and only a few
require 128 Kb (mainly in order to use the double high-resolution
graphics mode, which isn't possible with only 64 Kb). On the other hand,
if you plan to do some serious programming (more than the "Hello
world!"), or to run applications (such as AppleWorks), you may want to
buy a 64 Kb memory expansion board. You can find them off eBay, or maybe
somebody else on this list may help you.
Greetings,
Antonio Rodríguez (Grijan)
<ftp://grijan.cjb.net:21000/>
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