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Some keys not working on Apple //c

On my old //c is some keys do not work anymore like the "7", "p", "u", "k" an the "," keys.

I took one of the keys off and it looked mechanically ok. Can these keys be repaired? Or can i buy somewhere a replacement keyboard?

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Floppy Emu: ProDOS 2.4.2 Not Contiguous?

I have a few technical issues with my Floppy EMu, and I am beginning to think that I will need an alternative emulation card, although IDK if any solution is perfect.

 

Most notable is that when I try to load the ProDOS 2.4.2 or 2.5a disk images, it errors that the file is not contiguous. This seems absurd. Do any of you know what is happening there?

 

I also noted that almost every game .dsk image refuses to load. 

 

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Franklin Ace 1200: Drives SUDDENLY stopped working.

I have what is basically a NOS Franklin Ace 1200. It has been used probably three times ficne its unboxing, and when I recently set it up, it powered on and everything worked. After leaving it off for two days, I turned it on today, and the internal Disk ][ hardware isn't registering. It drops right to the prompt as if no Disk ][ Slot 6 stuff was present.

 

It hasn't bee moved, or otherwise disturbed in any way in the interim.

 

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CF in Vulcan v1.2 E40 ?

Has anyone successfully used a 32MB FCF card with a Vulcan //e (1.2, E40) card? I have two Vulcan cards: One is reaseved for a //gs, and will eentually get a GOLD ROM; the other is a //e 40MB card. 

 

Will  ulcan utilities properly partition and format a 32MB CF card on one of these, or will it lose its mind when it tries to determine head/sector counts?

 

Ere anyone asks, I only wish to do this because I already have the devices, and they are authentic to the system era. I am perfectly aware of newer devices, and I have SCSI cards, too. 

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IIc Plus drive won't eject - checked common issues, stumped

Hey all,

I'm a longtime Apple II user so not totally clueless but definitely not as technically adept as some. I've recently started trying to get a IIc Plus that I've had lying around working again; for as long as I'd had it, it just wouldn't boot. I replaced the ROM chip and now it boots and works fine, except the internal floppy drive doesn't eject via the eject button. The drive otherwise works great; just doesn't eject.

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Issues with floppy drives (MITAC & LASER)

Bought some floppy drives several months ago and these have been sitting in the shipping box until today.

 

It's half height drives (1 x MITAC AD-3C and 2 x LASER FD 100). I quite like and prefer these type of slim drives both because of the physical size but also that normally these drives are quite noisy when moving the heads which I prefer.

 

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apple II keyboard messed up

hi everyone, i recently unsoldered the key of my apple II but when put back on, the assignment of each key is different for example the space bar will type "@" or the keys "qwe" won't register at all. when i did the job the solder i used was obviously too hot, i just learned the hard way you cant use any soldering iron. 

 

sill i cleaned up all connection and i am positive no connections are overlapping or touching each other

 

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Old DOS 3.3 Text files with .VSP and .ETH file extensions

I found some of my old diskettes from the late 1980s and 1990 and found some files on my DOS 3.3 disk that are Text files ('T' file type when you CATALOG) that have the  "extension" .VSP and .ETH. For the life of me, I cannot recall what program or application was used to create these type of file names. I think the .VSP file is type of BASIC or other program file. I used to use ProBasic programming language, but I thought this was ProDOS-based - not DOS 3.3. The .ETH file type seems to be from some wordprcoessor.

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The Apple II Documentation Project, Lost contact

Hi,

in "former times" there was the Apple II Documentation Project .

The curators used the mail address a2dp -at- brutaldeluxe.fr but this doesn't work now. Any ideas to contact them?

Regards

Ralf

 

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