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Disk II controller card failure

Submitted by Atomtan on September 6, 2011 - 2:40pm

Is it possible that a bad disk II unit would damage the controller card (installed in iiEuroplus). I am certain I connected the new old drive correctly, but when I connected it, my one perfectly good controller card failed. I now have two failed cards (I notice the Apple Rom on both cards has black leg syndrome, which I will clean off). Is it worth swapping chips around or is there another component on the card that is a likely culprit?

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Need help to put a .shk file to .dsk or .2img

Submitted by markitzero on September 2, 2011 - 8:20pm

I am trying to get a copy of ProTerm that is in .shk and I need it eaither .DSK, .PO, .NIB, 2IMG for ADTPro

My host machine is windows and Mac is a Apple IIGS

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Apple //e Patents Expired?

Submitted by mutant_pie on September 2, 2011 - 12:53am

Public domain?

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Incorrect Disk II connection - How bad?

Submitted by retroaudio on August 31, 2011 - 3:41pm

Hi,

This is a stupid mistake. On connecting a Disk II drive to the interface card I managed to get the plug on with only one row of pins on the connector. I powered up the Apple but immediately noticed somthing wrong so switched off!

Now the drive spins up on power up but does not boot a disk. I have tried another drive and that is fine so it is not the interface card.

Is there a fix for this?

Any information gratefuly received.

Thanks, Richard.

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Advice needed to diagnose Apple ii disk drive problem

Submitted by Atomtan on August 30, 2011 - 4:44pm

I have (or) had a working Apple ii Europlus which I have been using as a benchmark machine to restore a second ii Europlus (my project machine). I arrived at the point where the project machine is fully working and has a Super Serial card on board and has successfully linked to ADTpro. So it was time to get one of the spare Disk ii’s I have working with it. I found that neither of the three drives I have performed as expected and after a little head scratching, noticed that the controller card has a number of chips with ‘black corroded’ legs.

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Disk II card ok, Duodisk card not ok

Submitted by retroaudio on August 30, 2011 - 4:19pm

Hi to All,

Would there be any specific reason why an Unidisk card would stop my Apple II from starting up?. (no red power light on motherboard and no screen output, the green power led lights ok though). My II disk card works fine.

Is it just a case of a dud card?

Cheers,

Richard

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Compatibility of various StyleWriter models with an Apple IIgs ROM 3 (OS: GS/OS 6.0.1)?

Submitted by Apple IIgs on August 30, 2011 - 3:40pm

Compatibility of various StyleWriter models with an Apple IIgs ROM 3 (OS: GS/OS 6.0.1)?

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Pascal differences and manuals

Submitted by retroaudio on August 28, 2011 - 2:45pm

Hi Guys,

I have created the four disk set for Apple Pascal but I get a "no file system.apple" message when I try to boot from disk 1. It seems I am missing a disk or I am starting the Apple up incorrectly. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

I also notice that the disk images were classed as an operating system rather than a programming language so can anyone clarify this?

Ihave since downloaded Instant Pascal and Laser Pascal but I am struggling to find a PDF manual for them. Any ideas?

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