LC Apple IIe Card, What is the best machine to run this Card

[uniserver]

A gut feeling wants to toss this in the dual floppy drive LC, then its true to its roots.

But what do you guys think is the best Mac for the LC Apple IIe Card?

Maybe in a Color Classic?

https://www.icloud.com/journal/#03;CAEQARoQUj7NrcvXfcQ5oiQX_3YtBQ;C80CCC0F-1E8C-4CF8-809F-D9A0CAA687DE



Apple IIe Card Compatible

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Macintosh LC

Y

Macintosh Color Classic

Y

Macintosh LC II

Y

Macintosh LC III

Y

Macintosh LC 475

Y

Macintosh LC 520

Y

Macintosh LC 550

Y

Macintosh LC 575 *

Y

Macintosh Quadra 605

Y

Macintosh Performa 4xx

Y

Macintosh Performa 55x

Y

Macintosh Performa 56x

Y

Macintosh Performa 57x *

Y

from:

http://support.apple.com/kb/TA46886

 

[Anonymous Freak]

Color Classic or Quadra 605 have always been my 'target favorites'. I have mine in an original LC, for "historical sake," mostly because I have an Ethernet card in my Color Classic...

 

[olePigeon]

Any computer with an LC slot. Color Classic is nice because it's all contained.

 

[Charlieman]

The card works the same way, irrespective of Mac model and OS version. Normally, an Ethernet card goes into the LC PDS slot in order to retain sanity. But if you want the Apple IIe card, you can't have your cake and eat it.

I'd go for a model with a Comm Slot port or one that is happy with a SCSI Ethernet adapter. Anything that can take enough VRAM to display colour at 1024 * 768 so that you can use it for more than Apple IIe functionality.

 

[mcdermd]

So ... LC575 CC Mystic with ComSlot Ethernet and IIe PDS card! Best of all worlds!

 

[Charlieman]

Bummer. The LC575 combo with a Comm Slot card may not work according to the Apple Tech Note. If you have time, give it a try, creating different extension sets with and without Ethernet. Logically, the Comm Slot requires 32 bit addressing, so it won't work with the IIe card.

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

ISTR something about those cards only working in 24bit mode, does that disqualify any of the above, if true? :?:

edit: HAH! You beat me to it Charlieman!

Do those cards output Video? It'd be sweet if you could feed the output back into a Tuner Card.

 

[Charlieman]

Do those cards output Video? It'd be sweet if you could feed the output back into a Tuner Card.

The IIe card piggybacks onto Mac video and takes over the screen. It should work with one of the third party SCSI graphics adapters. Or one of the clip on Power R graphics adapters. But it doesn't have its own video out.

 

[NJRoadfan]

"Dealer Installation Required" HA!

When you get it up and running, can you post screen shots of the various panes of the control panel? The vintagemacworld site only has a few of the screens.

http://www.vintagemacworld.com/lc_images.html

Nice little FAQ: http://www.vintagemacworld.com/lc_card_faq.html

 

[LCGuy]

They were actually serious about that - I still have the Getting Started guide that came with my LCIII, which states that while some LC PDS cards can be installed by the user, others must be installed by an AASP, because they require moving the logic board. Some things never change - Apple has never liked you lurking around in the deep, dark depths of your Mac.

 

[CelGen]

Bummer. The LC575 combo with a Comm Slot card may not work according to the Apple Tech Note. If you have time, give it a try, creating different extension sets with and without Ethernet. Logically, the Comm Slot requires 32 bit addressing, so it won't work with the IIe card.

I recall screwing with MODE32 on my LCIII and at least there it wasn't complaining about the card in 32-bit mode.

 

[68kbits]

So what did you end up going with!?

 

[uniserver]

I ended up installing the IIe card into my dual superdrive LC.

My buddy jason hooked me up with this IIe card,

He also sent me a 32mhz 68030 cpu upgrade for a LC,

So the LC with a hard drive got that upgrade.

 

[olePigeon]

If you ever run into a 2.5" SCSI drive, you can convert your LC into a dual drive LC with HDD.

 

[Bunsen]

Re addressing modes: at the very worst, you could set up two boot systems, one in 32 bit mode for ethernet, and one in 24 bit for the IIe Card.

 

[Brett B.]

I feel like it depends on what machines you have at your disposal (I know you've got a few )

My Apple IIe card is installed in my LCIII. Originally it was in my LC, but I found a PDS '040 upgrade card for it, so no more free slot.

Personally I feel that an LC or LCII is THE perfect choice, they are way too slow to do much else with. I can't live without ethernet in the faster pizza boxes.