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Actually this page is pretty set, the subpages need work. ***SEE DISCUSSION PAGE FIRST*** Thanks --PZ 06:31, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

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One of the early strengths of the Apple II line was its set of internal expansion card slots, sometimes reffered to as edge connector sockets. Into these slots were inserted Apple II Peripheral Cards, which added functionality to the system and users generally simply called "cards." Perhaps the most common card is the Disk II Controller Card, which allows users of earlier Apple II's to use a 5¼" floppy disk drive. The typical Apple II, aside from the portable Apple IIc series, had seven 50 pin expansion slots, labeled Slots 1 though 7. These slots could hold printed circuit board cards with double-sided edge connectors, 25 "fingers" on each side, with 100 mil center spacing between fingers. This card edge connector fit exactly into the slot with the fingers matching up with the slot's electrical contacts. Through these slots, the Apple II could be expanded beyond the wildest dreams of early adopters, and far beyond what were then contempory computers. Both Apple Computer and dozens of third-party vendors created hundreds of cards for the Apple II series of computers. Even today, long after the last Apple IIe came off of the assembly line in 1993, a handful of manufacturers are still making peripheral and expansion cards for Apple II computers.

In addition to the seven standard slots, the following computers contained these other slots for expansion:

Apple II & Apple II Plus: 50 pin "Slot 0"
Apple IIe: 60 pin "Auxillary Slot"
Apple IIGS: 40 pin "Memory Expansion Slot"

Card Categories

Apple II cards can be broadly divided into the following categories:

Apple II serial cards
Apple II parallel cards
Apple II multi I/O cards
Apple II internal modems
Apple II 80 column and RGB cards (Standard 50 pin slot type)
Apple II floppy disk controllers
Apple II hard disk controllers
Apple II network adapters
Apple II processor cards
Apple II memory expansion cards (Standard 50 pin Slot type, "Slinky cards")
Apple IIe auxillary cards Memory / 80-Column / RGB (IIe 60 pin Aux Slot type)
Apple IIGS memory expansion cards (GS Memory 40 pin Slot type)
Apple II accelerators
Apple IIGS accelerators
Apple II system clocks
Apple II sound cards
Apple II miscellaneous cards
Apple IIc internal expansion cards
Apple II cards which never made it into production

External Links about Apple II Peripheral Cards

– in-depth detail about some Apple II cards
– images of many cards

External Links to Current Apple II Peripheral Manufacturers

http://www.gse-reactive.com/ GSE-Reactive hard drive and floppy controllers, GS RAM card, Mockingboard
clone, replacement powersupply, No-Slot Clock
http://dreher.net/?s=projects/CFforAppleII&c=projects/CFforAppleII/main.php R & D Automation CFFA Compact Flash / IDE interface card
http://www.a2retrosystems.com A2 Retrosystems Uther ethernet card
http://www.rothfus.com/SVD/ SVD Semi Virtual Diskette: solid state 5¼" disk drive emulator
http://www.wbwip.com/shh/ ///SHH Systeme hard drive and floppy drive controllers, LanceGS ethernet card, Transwarp 32k cache board
http://www.8bitbaby.de/ 8 Bit Baby 8 Bit Baby prototyping board
http://www.rcsys.com/legacy.htm RC Systems DoubleTalk (Echo and Slotbuster compatible) speech synthesiser card

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