Back to the Future

Kanasfest, the annual get-together of Apple II enthusiasts, was a couple of weeks ago, so I've been seeing various reports here and there. Somehow, somewhere, I learned of a new product for the Apple IIc, the MegaFlash for Apple //c. The idea is to have four mass-storage devices, virtual hard drives, stored internally. It also offers some modifications to the Apple IIc ROM that correct a couple of bugs in Applesoft, a 400K RAM disk, and a routine that intercepts Applesoft floating point routines and performs them in the onboard Raspberry Pi Pico, in effect a sort of math-coprocessor. Naturally, I ordered one. It came in a while ago, and I've been preoccupied with house and health, so I didn't try to install it. Yesterday I decided I needed a break from house stuff and broke out my IIc to install it. To make a long story short, it works! It has a wifi interface and you can connect it to your local wifi network, and it'll get the date and time from a network time server, then it…