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Apple II?

Submitted by wishtoknow on December 19, 2016 - 8:58pm

Have a look at this photo.
What do you think this is?
Have you ever seen one of these before?

To me, it looks like a IIGS prototype
with the keyboard attached. (keeping
in lines with the other II series)

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Imagewriter II issues

Submitted by CWJ_Wilko on December 19, 2016 - 5:40pm

Hoping someone can help me out here.

I've had some ongoing problems with my Imagewriter II. It takes 15 minutes to 'boot' from power on, I'm suspecting there's a capacitor somewhere that needs to be replaced, as turning it off and on after it's finally going takes just a second.

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color in character sets in hgr mode

Submitted by the777 on December 15, 2016 - 5:46pm

i dont understand how the character sets r built up. they seem to b 16 bits long and 7 bits wide. is there somewhere where the color information goes?

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different mainboard versions of the IIGS

Submitted by speedyG on December 15, 2016 - 8:11am

after inquiry i added pictures to display differences between different mainboard versions of the IIGS:
http://www.appleii-box.de/H111GSmainboardVersions.htm

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is it possible to do color text and udg's in apple 2 basic?

Submitted by the777 on December 15, 2016 - 7:42am

hi,

is it possible to do color text and udg's in apple 2 basic? i.e text in high res graphics mode, etc

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Main board Identification

Submitted by mechanicjay on December 14, 2016 - 10:55pm

Hello,

I just got this depopulated mainboard in a lot I picked up. It has no names or numbers on it. The spacing and stuff looks like an Apple II style board to me. Any ideas?

IMAGE(http://archives.smbfc.net/uploads/retrocomputing/appleii/re_20161213_214821.jpg)

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Trouble booting

Submitted by jpxl8ed on December 14, 2016 - 2:37am

I recently picked up an Apple II plus, which the original owner told me was working the last time he had used it (many years ago). When I turn it on it looks like it is trying to display the apple banner but most of the characters are missing, the computer doesn't beep on boot either. I tried reseating most of the chips and removing any extra cards which didn't seem to make a difference. I'm not sure if there is a bad ROM or something, but was hoping to get some ideas of what I could try next. I attached a picture of what it looks like when I turn it on. Thanks I appreciate any help.

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Apple II+ - Don't store that Apple in the garage (Fixed)

Submitted by blegate on December 13, 2016 - 10:50pm

I've had this since 1982-83. It's not booting. Following advice I got a chip puller and started to re-seat the ram. To my surprise I find a spider nest? In addition, I took a close up of one of the RAM chips and you can see the years of neglect.
Not sure if I can revive this but I'm going to try. When booting I hear the beep and I get what you see in the picture on the screen. Any advice would be helpful.

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Should I get a (repro) enhancement kit for my IIe?

Submitted by pipboy344 on December 12, 2016 - 7:26pm

I have an early one and I've been reading about the benefits of an Enhanced chip set.

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Apple II Single Stepper

Submitted by wishtoknow on December 11, 2016 - 8:25pm

Apparently this was used in test engineering.
In Ireland.
The single stepper was used in the rework area -
failed motherboard would be examined by the
technicians using the single stepper and
could determine the fault. (RAM, shorts, opens)

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