Apple II

Hello All,

I ran in to an artist at the Pittsburgh Three Rivers Arts festival this year that had some unique artwork. I purchased a few of the Apple patents from him to frame and hang on the wall. I thought this was pretty unique artwork and super creative. What he does is researches patents for iconic inventions, takes a professional photograph of the item, extract the main elements of the patent (drawings and text) and then brings it all together into a collage on really high quality paper that is suitable for framing.

Together with a FrankenApple there were a lot of different ROM chip included.
Most notable are 1 set of 4 '78 Integer Roms (1-4) as well as a single '77 Week 51 F8 Integer ROM.

Most of the custom ROMs seem to be for use in a Mountain computer ROM+ card.

Several programed 874x type MPUs were included as well.

UPDATE: some Roms are now in the ZIP archive.

There were some modified monitor ROMs as well as several tools for ROM testing.

-Jonas

I am trying to fix the motherboard to my grandfather's old //e, and have run into a bit of a problem. The board had been behaving rather strangely (not running internal diagnostics when the keyboard was detached, and giving errors for the RAM, and MMU). I've tested the chips on another board to see if I could replicated the error, but they all tested "System OK" on the new board. The most consistent error I was getting was in RAM socket #7, so I tried spraying it with some contact cleaner.

Looking online for PC SCSI adapters it looks like I may have waited too long at this point, but it's been my plan for many years now to one day fire up my old Apple //e SCSI hard drives and rip all the content off to run on PC emulators (not to mention get to old college papers, etc.). While chances are slim there's anyone here who would remember, I ran Wunderland BBS until the mid 90s on what I would suspect was the most souped up Apple //e ever to exist. With 1 MB RAM, 8 MHz ZIP CPU, and 1.3 GB!!! of hard drive space, at the time it was a monster.