On 4/8/04, Mark Benson wrote: >Anyone know how to positively identify if a //e has been upgraded to >'Enhanced' spec? I have just been given a //e and it has a 65C02 in but >has no 'enhanced' tag under the Power LED. It may have fallen off in >all the time it's been around on god's earth however... I really just >need the IDs of the other upgrade parts (ROM IDs etc...) so I can tell >for sure.
One way to tell is that on the enhanced //e's you have the "MouseText" characters (I'll have to find my manual from when my //e was enhanced). There was a program (in BASIC, I think) which printed a certain range of characters (upper ASCII I believe), and would allow you to check. Also, if you have AppleWorks 3.0+ (the original Apple II version, not the renamed ClarisWorks that they sell nwo), it makes use of the MouseText characters for displaying the nested folders the menus use. I'll see about getting my //e out of temp storage this weekend and see if there's a ROM chip which appears to have been switched out - that may tell us where you can look. >Oh and I'm totally clueless what the hell one does with one - I'm a Mac >guy, give me my mouse back!! ;o) I guess I might be saved by the fact i >started out my computer life on Acorn BBC Microcomputers, which are >almost the same machine but from a different point of view. Actually, if your //e is enhanced, you can get a card and use a mouse. Of course, once you learn keyboard shortcuts, you can do a lot of things (non-graphic) on //e's quicker than with a mouse. I used to love to rile one of my co-workers in an Apple dealership I worked in 20 years ago by claiming that text-based AppleWorks was faster for word processing and related tasks than Macs were! (I now have both Macs and Apple //'s (//e, IIgs,...)) Hope that muddies the water sufficiently, Jim -- Apple2list is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... / Buy books, CDs, videos, and more from Amazon.com \ / <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/lowendmac> \ Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Apple2list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/apple2.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/apple2list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
