Apple IIe: what cards to choose

[Byrd]

Hi,

A little while back I purchased the amazing ESP32 card for the Apple II, and would love to finally get my Apple IIe working well around this. I don't have any working disk drives so previously used a floppy emu on it, however have a BOOTI card in it now.

These are the cards that are in it, some appear doubled up - what would you recommend I keep?

BOOTI card
Disk II interface card (think I need this for the BOOTI, is that right?)
Apple II mouse card
RAMWORKS 1 card, with 1MB installed in AUX slot
Apple Memory Expansion Card aka "Slinky", with 1MB installed - with a lovely curve to the PCB
Apple Super Serial card
Applied Engineering Serial Pro (the clock battery was removed years ago)

Thanks

JB

 

[bibilit]

Probably both Ram cards are overkill, the mouse card, well, don’t use it too much myself.

Both serial cards, I will keep the SSC only.

 

[waynestewart]

I have all of those cards but I don’t keep a permanent set of cards in a IIe. However some cards are always installed, a Ramworks, mouse card, 5.25” interface and a hard drive interface. I haven’t used a serial card in likely 25 years. I don’t see much value in a slinky card if you have a Ramworks. Decide what your personal needs are and go for it.