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I picked up an Apple II clone last week, and I'm in the process of re-storing it.
Has anyone heard of the Orange Peel by the Canadian company Orange Computers inc.
All I could find was an ETI article about it (attached).
I decided to re-cap it before turning it on, it's only a $25 order from Digikey (including the original Zenith monitor).
I didn't think to take pictures before dissembling it. But here's the main boards:
I intend to dump any ROMs as soon as my new programmer comes in, my old serial programmer is in a box
somewhere and I wanted something USB anyway.
Sins it has no basic ROM and can only boot from disk I've started designing a version of the Brain Board.
" The Brain Board is a firmware card for the II that allows you to do several tricks that are difficult to do otherwise, such as booting up a IIplus or IIe directly into cassette Integer Basic, and it also offers a way to run a mostly-compatible emulation of the Apple I. (IE, the "Woznium Pack".)"
I got Mike's approval to sell a few too, once I've tested the board (and anyone is interested) I'll make a run of them.
Version 0.2, I already have ideas for an improved 0.3
Just some information I found...
https://web.archive.org/web/20191002205604/https://pcmuseum.ca/details.asp?id=36329
Have fun.
Yep, that's the system I have, though my disk drive is branded Orange Computers and it's a half hight drive.
Main power supply re-capped, and I have backed up the boot and character ROMs.
What I thought was an EPROM on the keyboard is actually an MC68705P3 microcontroller.
I might try and duplicate this: http://matthieu.benoit.free.fr/MC68705P3_reader.htm
It's an obscure enough computer that I think it's worth backing up all the code and documenting it.