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In its day, Applied Engineering built a solid reputation among Apple II owners for their innovation, excellent build quality, and generous warranty support. AE was quick to fill in gaps in the market for Apple II add-on boards and expansion options, often developing products for the Apple II line that neither Apple Computer nor other third-party vendors offered.


PRODUCT OFFERINGS


Some of Applied Engineering's best-known products for the Apple II included:

The TransWarp family of Apple II Accelerators actually consisted of multiple products. The original TransWarp took over from the standard 1-MHz 6502 or 65C02 used in the Apple IIe with a 3.6-MHz version of the 65C02 (which could also be run at 1.8 MHz, selectable through hardware) and turned on and off completely through software. The TransWarp was later followed by a TransWarp II and TransWarp III, the latter of which was announced but never actually went into production. With Apple Computer's release of the Apple IIGS , Applied Engineering followed with a TransWarp GS, which provided an accelerated version of the 65C816 processor on which the IIGS was based.

Multi-function cards were a mainstay of AE's product offerings, of which the Serial Pro serial interface card was a typical example. Besides offering a standard RS-232 serial port, the card included a ProDOS-compatible realtime clock, thus combining two cards into one and freeing up an extra slot. When used with a Dot-matrix printer, the Serial Pro offered several screen-dump print options, such as printing either of the two Apple II high-resolution pages alone, both in a single dump, or the first high-res page rotated or inverted.


PARTIAL PRODUCT LIST



For all Apple IIs except IIc/IIc Plus



Apple II/II Plus Specific

  • AE 16K Card - Reduced-chip substitute for Apple's 16-kB Language Card

  • ViewMaster 80 - Videx- and Videoterm-compatible 80-column card with lowercase and light pen support



Apple IIe Specific



Apple IIc/IIc Plus Specific

  • Z-RAM, Z-RAM Ultra, Z-RAM Ultra II, Z-RAM Ultra III - Memory expansion card

  • RAM Express, RAM Express II



Apple IIGS Specific

  • TransWarp GS - Apple IIGS accelerator card

  • GS-RAM, GS-RAM Plus - Apple IIGS memory expansion card

  • Audio Animator - Apple IIGS sound card with external audio mixer



Miscellaneous

  • AE 1.44-MB Drive - 1.44-MB, 3.5-inch floppy drive for IIe, IIc/IIc Plus, and IIGS (Apple's 3.5-inch drives for the Apple II stopped at 800 kB)



SEE ALSO

Apple II Peripheral Cards