Apple IIe PDS Card – Macintosh

Apple IIe PDS Card - Macintosh
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Price range: $90.00 through $750.00

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Description

The Apple IIe card was created to transition schools from Apple II’s into the Macintosh world as they already had Apple II software. The card made it’s debut with the Macintosh LC which had a newly created slot (PDS) on the logic board to support this new card. The card contains a 65C02 processor, 256K memory and a port that supports an Apple 5.25 floppy disk drive and a joystick. Software for the Mac is on a 3.5″ disk allowing the Mac to emulate the Apple IIe from inside Mac OS.

All IIe Cards have been recapped and restored to working condition. Tested in an LC, LC II, or LC III.

Original set – first photo:

  • Packing List
  • Owner’s Guide – Sealed!
  • Installer and Startup disks (3.5″ 1.4MB)
  • IIe Card
  • Y cable

Non original set in the second photo:

  • IIe Card – recapped, restored and fully working
  • New Y cable ( goes from the IIe card to a 5.25 Drive and joystick)
  • Set of non original IIe Card disks – Version 2.1

New Y cable only

Apple II drive(s), joysticks and software are sold separately. The only Apple II drives that can be used with this card are the Apple 5.25 Drive and the Unidisk 3.5.

From Apple:

Apple IIe Card is  compatible with any Macintosh that has the LC style PDS and does not require 32-bit addressing.
This includes:

  • Macintosh Color Classic
  • Performa 400 series
  • Macintosh LC / Performa 500 series computers (except the Macintosh LC 580 and Performa 580)
  • Macintosh LC series computers (except Macintosh 630 family, Power Macintosh 5200 LC and 5300 LC, Macintosh Performa 5200, 5300, 6200, 6300 series)

Note:
The following computers are in the Macintosh 630 family: Performa 630, Performa 635, Performa 636, Performa 637, Performa 638, LC 630, and Quadra 630.The Macintosh LC 580, Macintosh 630 family, Power Macintosh 5200 LC and 5300 LC, Performa 5200/5300 and 6200/6300 series only operate in 32-bit addressing mode. Since the Apple IIe Card is not compatible with 32-bit addressing, the Apple IIe Card is not compatible with these computers. The Power Macintosh 5400 and 6400 series and the Macintosh Performa 6400 series and 6360/160 computers do not have LC processor direct slots. These computers have PCI expansion slots. Thus, they do not support the Apple IIe Card. The 68040 versions of the Macintosh LC 500 and Performa 500 series do not recognize the Apple IIe Card when there is a communication card occupying the communication slot.

In other words, our research came up with the following:

The Mac has to meet the following requirements to be able to use the card:

1) LC PDS slot
2) The ability to do 24-bit addressing
3) Mac OS 7.5.5 or below

The 24-bit addressing limits you to a maximum of 8MB of physical RAM in the machine, and to Mac OS 7.5.5, as Apple removed the option to enable 24-bit addressing from later versions of the operating system.

Computers that have the LC PDS or Extended PDS slot include:

  • LC, LC II, III, III+, 475
  • LC 520, 550, 575, 580
  • Performa 400, 405, 410, 430, 450, 460, 466, 467, 475, 476, 520, 550, 575, 577,578, 580, 630, 631, 635, 636, 637, 638, 640
  • Quadra 605, 630
  • Color Classic, Color Classic II, Macintosh TV 

Other notes:

  • The original LC PDS slot is 96 pin and 16 bit
  • The Extended LC PDS slot is 110 pin and 32 bit and backward compatible with the 96 pin cards.
  • Please do your own research! 

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