Apple II

Franklin 1000 system restoration

Submitted by Verault on July 25, 2021 - 1:19pm

So someone brought me a Franklin 1000 in a very sad state to have repaired. Seems they connected up the keyboard cable backwards and did some damage. They did add new foam capacitive pads first but never got the chance to test them.

 

The long and short of it is I needed to replace a couple diodes and capacitors on the keyboard PCB as well as some TTL logic. The keyboard decoder IC was also bad. IT was impressive the damage caused by connecting a cable backwards considering the cables had no connector or key; its easy to put in wrong!

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Apple 2+ VIDEO ISSUE WITH 16K CARD

Submitted by Heyme on July 25, 2021 - 9:33am

I have a machine that hasn't been powered in years.  Powered up first time yesterday.  Fully bots up  floppy works. 

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UNCLE BERNIE'S CODEBREAKER GAME FOR APPLE-II

Submitted by UncleBernie on July 24, 2021 - 8:18pm

Hi -

 

you may not know me yet but I'm an Apple-1 activist. Think along the lines of the slogan:  "The Guy Who Fixed The Apple-1 (tm)".

 

May I draw your attention to this post on the Apple-1 forum:

 

https://www.applefritter.com/content/uncle-bernies-codebreaker-game-apple-1

 

It's a small game for the Apple-1 which is supposed to load and run on the Apple-II, too. Think of a "hybrid" that bridges the abyss between the Apple-1 and the Apple-II. At least, it's an attempt of mine to do that.

 

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Apple ][ plus keyboard faulty after incorrect ribbon cable connection

Submitted by dkl on July 24, 2021 - 6:25pm
I have a Apple ][ plus that I acquired that was working fine when I last used it. Keyboard correctly displayed all characters. Well, I decided to take it all apart and give it a good cleaning top to bottom. I put it back together and in the middle of doing so I mistakenly put the ribbon cable for the keyboard on backwards.
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Apple /// Color Monitor Cable for the Taxan RGBVision III

Submitted by achim_boers@mac.com on July 24, 2021 - 1:20am

This is an explination of how to make a cable for the Taxan RGB Vision III monitor for the Apple ///

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8-bit Dice - a cross platform retro fantasy

Submitted by LoadError on July 21, 2021 - 9:47am

I've ported a simple dice game to a good number of 8-bit systems of the '70s/'80s, including the Apple II series (][, ][ Plus, //c and //e enhanced).The complete package can be downloaded from here.

Cheers

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Replacement composite video out cable for the //c

Submitted by LoadError on July 15, 2021 - 7:34am

I need to replace the composite video cable that connects my Apple //c to its 9" monitor.

Can I use any plain composite video cable with RCA connectors, or are there special requirements?

Would a regular "yellow" modern cable work? Like this one: https://t.ly/M7Ot

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Comms using SSC and external USR v.92 modem --Isn't working

Submitted by Paul19804 on July 13, 2021 - 3:07pm

It wasn't this difficult 40 years ago ... Logging in to bulletin boards, university mainframe, CompuServe(!) ....

Just resurrected my 1978 Apple II.  The Mountain Computer CPS card just didn't work any more so I got an Apple SuperSerial Card. 

All working fine.  I get the "APPLE SSC: " prompt.  It responds to CTRL-A commands like  Echo.  Connected to an external USR V.92 Faxmodem.  When SSC engages, the modem indicates "Terminal Ready" (TR). 

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