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Restoring Apple II systems for a friends widow

Submitted by Bagpuss on May 21, 2018 - 5:45am

Hi All,

I'm really hoping that someone on here can help me.

One of my best friends passed away just over a year ago from a brain tumour. We'd worked together at Sun for many years, and I regularly stayed with him and his family when I was working out of the Camberley UK offices.

When I was helping his widow go through his tech stuff, I found the computers which started it all for him... his Apple II's.
I've not yet looked at them too closely, but I know that the X2 caps in the PSU will need to be changed before we can try to power them on.

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Restoring an old Apple IIe unenhanced

Submitted by Tyrins on May 20, 2018 - 3:49pm

Hi to everybody,

I'm writing to You 'cause I hope someone can help me:
I found an old apple IIe in the garbage (!!!) so I picked it up and I want to try restore it. There are some problems with ram chips and IOU but I'm working on it.

During the desoldering operations I realized that a component is broken. Unfortunately I am not so expert to recognize it. Can someone help me by giving me the specifications so that I can find a substitute and change it?

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UniDisk Ejection Motor

Submitted by Leonard R. Miller on May 19, 2018 - 2:21pm

Hello all... I just received an Apple IIC with an external UniDisk 3.5" drive. The mechanics of the drive work great after I cleaned up all the old lithium grease, and re-lubed it. I also replaced the plastic gear in the ejection unit with a new one I got from Ebay. The problem I'm having with the drive is with the ejection motor. It continuously spins and won't shut off. Any ideas? There may be other problems with the drive, but this is as far as I've gotten so far. Ideas? I don't know much about Apple products, but I'm learning.

Leonard

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New page about Apple IIe resurection / repair

Submitted by speedyG on May 16, 2018 - 5:47am

Hello to all AF members
due to the increasing amount of trouble with Apple IIe models I have added a new page to my site
about rsurection / repair of that Apple IIe models after purchase / long time storage:

http://www.appleii-box.de/D06b_resurectionIIe.htm

the page is still in construction but will be completed within next 5 days.

SpeedyG

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I want to strangle this //e

Submitted by AjaxOfQWERTY on May 16, 2018 - 2:33am

It has been almost six years since my registration on this forum, but I don't think anyone would care. What comes to the table is my nice flea market find; a revision B //e, with what appears to be some printer card, an unknown peripheral card and a Disk ][ interface. So let's cut to the chase.... doesn't work.

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Developing a new Apple II Game

Submitted by Toolkitman on May 14, 2018 - 4:55pm

Hello Applefritterz,
I'm developing by 2 days a new Apple IIe game (tested in the Applewin emulator). It consistes about a game to find the right letter losing in a word. There are more levels and you reach points
every words found.

Here you can check the code it's early stage and if you want to contribute to develop it you are welcome, i'm only an homebrew developer not a professional so any Apple // pro programmer is welcome!

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About my Apple IIgs got from eBay

Submitted by pkilam on May 8, 2018 - 7:19pm

Hello Everyone. This is my first time here.
Yesterday, I got my Apple IIgs from eBay. Since I don't have a RGB monitor, I connected the composite port at the back of my IIgs to the rca jack on my LCD monitor. Then powered up my llgs.

The llgs powered up, and i heard 2 BEEPS.., but the LCD monitor displayed the message "No signal"

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Who is going to Vintage Computer Festival East (May 18th to 20th)?

Submitted by Corey986 on May 8, 2018 - 5:42am

I know there is going to be some cool Apple II stuff as I am lending some vintage TVs to the "Expandable Apple" exhibit.

http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-east/

Yes, this is a shameless plug, we have to out number the Commodore guys!!!!

Cheers,
Corey

Did I mention there are lots of vintage Apple computers Smile

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Repairing Apple II power supply

Submitted by Cordy on April 30, 2018 - 9:57pm

I am attempting to repair an original A2M001 style power supply (not made by Astec) for my Apple II. I need the Bill of Materials and component layout drawing to determine some the values of several burnt resistors. Does this documentation exist?
I have the schematic (from the 1979 Apple II reference manual) but it does not show component values. The power supply board does not have component references silkscreened on it.

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Has anyone seen this before

Submitted by Atek34 on April 30, 2018 - 4:28pm

Rev 7 board with the numbers 20-80 right by the cpu and even more strange is the p/n 820-0001-0 under cpu

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