Little Bits
By Andrew Roughan
Copyright (c) 1994 Apple Users' Group, Sydney
Republished from Applecations, a publication of the Apple Users' Group, Sydney, Australia.
o Applied Engineering have ceased trading as of April 1st 1994. AE were well known for their large range of Apple // peripherals which included RAM cards, disk drives and accelerators.
Bruce Babb, an AE bench technician, is reportedly planning to support AE products. He hopes to setup a service and technical support line. In a message on CompuServe he also stated that an unnamed company will be opening to sell many of the Apple II products that AE made. No further details were given. You can reach Bruce Babb via email at 76004.1575@CompuServe.com.
o The update from Programmer's Reference 6.0 to Programmer's Reference 6.0.1 is now available directly from ByteWorks. It costs US$10. Shipping to Australia is:
Copies Air Surface
1 $6 $2
2 $8 $3
3 $10 $4
ByteWorks Inc.
Suite 207
4700 Irving Blvd. NW
Albuquerque, New Mexico USA 87114
o Last month I mentioned that Apple //c owners are entitled to a free ROM upgrade to enable the use of a UniDisk 3.5" disk drive. This ROM upgrade also fixes a problem with the serial ports. To see if your Apple //c needs the upgrade go into basic and type:
]PRINT PEEK(64447)
If the value returned is 255 then you do not have the upgrade. A value of 0 indicates that you already have the upgraded ROM installed.
To get your Apple //c upgraded, take it to any Apple reseller and quote this exchange program number: ODL660
This is a FREE upgrade.
o Commodore Australia was placed into receivership recently and all their warehouse stock auctioned. A few of us went down to try and grab a cheap replacement monitor for our Apple IIgs'. Commodore Amiga 1084s monitors are compatible with the Apple IIgs and can be found for much less than expensive repairs to your IIgs monitor.
New single monitors fetched $225 excluding sales tax. A look in The Trading Post computer section showed that they can be picked up for around $200. We discovered that the only difference between the 1084s P, D and D2 models is the manufacturer and styling. The cable specification for using
these monitors with the Apple IIgs was printed on Pg 29 of the February Applecations.
o Among the fanfare surrounding the release of the Power Macintosh last month, a another significant product from Apple was overshadowed. The QuickTake 100 colour digital camera provides a lowcost method of bringing images onto your computer.
Until now, a video camera and digitiser combination, or a camera and scanner combination was needed to produce computer images of pictures. The costly items being the digitiser or scanner.
The QuickTake 100 is a very portable and easy to use solution which will bring the same results for around half the price.
The QuickTake 100 effectively operates as an instant camera. It has automatic flash, focus, speed and aperture. There is no film - up to 32 images are stored internally. After a 'shoot', images are transferred to the computer using a standard serial cable.
Unfortunately there is no software to perform the download or image display on the Apple IIgs yet. But it will be done!
The QuickTake 100 is available from your favourite Apple reseller. RRP $995

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