I got my CC up and running with the IIe card. It booted fine from a 5.25" disk as well as a 3.5" in its internal slot. The computer works fairly well; I played a game of Oregon Trail on it to test its functionality.
My observations:
PROS
Much smaller than a regular IIe
Trinitron display
Built in support for 3.5" disks and a mouse
Easy enough to use (I put the IIe program in my Startup Items folder and made it into an "all-IIe-all-the-time" computer)
Easy connectivity to 5.25" drive (I finally found a use for that spare 5.25" drive my good friend gave me for my 16th birthday as a gag gift!*)
CONS
CC's screen has poor geometry (not really all that noticeable in Apple II mode unless a ton of text is on the screen, more of a problem when I use it as a Mac)
Dead PRAM battery (I do have a spare somewhere and just need to replace it; I wanted to get the card working first)
Keyboard is mushier than a regular Apple IIe's
*Funny story behind the floppy drive. My good friend went to a flea market and found an Apple II game that he wanted to run on his LCIII (which didn't have a IIe card). He bought an Apple 5.25" drive for a quarter and called me the next day to ask how one connects a 5.25" drive to an LCIII. When I explained to him that it wasn't possible without the IIe card (neither of us had one at the time, if I did I would have given it to him) he said that it was only 25 cents and wasn't a big deal. Two months later he gave me a very nicely-wrapped gift bag (complete with tissue paper). Inside is an Apple 5.25" drive. I laughed and he told me that it was the drive he had bought at the flea market for a quarter. The game, an election simulator called President Elect, was also included in the deal (complete with the original box).
My observations:
PROS
Much smaller than a regular IIe
Trinitron display
Built in support for 3.5" disks and a mouse
Easy enough to use (I put the IIe program in my Startup Items folder and made it into an "all-IIe-all-the-time" computer)
Easy connectivity to 5.25" drive (I finally found a use for that spare 5.25" drive my good friend gave me for my 16th birthday as a gag gift!*)
CONS
CC's screen has poor geometry (not really all that noticeable in Apple II mode unless a ton of text is on the screen, more of a problem when I use it as a Mac)
Dead PRAM battery (I do have a spare somewhere and just need to replace it; I wanted to get the card working first)
Keyboard is mushier than a regular Apple IIe's
*Funny story behind the floppy drive. My good friend went to a flea market and found an Apple II game that he wanted to run on his LCIII (which didn't have a IIe card). He bought an Apple 5.25" drive for a quarter and called me the next day to ask how one connects a 5.25" drive to an LCIII. When I explained to him that it wasn't possible without the IIe card (neither of us had one at the time, if I did I would have given it to him) he said that it was only 25 cents and wasn't a big deal. Two months later he gave me a very nicely-wrapped gift bag (complete with tissue paper). Inside is an Apple 5.25" drive. I laughed and he told me that it was the drive he had bought at the flea market for a quarter. The game, an election simulator called President Elect, was also included in the deal (complete with the original box).