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What are your methods of cleaning your Apple II (Inside + Outside)

Submitted by Apple2 on January 30, 2017 - 10:28am

Hey everyone,

Firstly, thanks so much for being so kind to me on this forum, I have posted some pretty beginner questions and you guys haven't made me feel stupid or flamed me at all, so I am really grateful!

So to my question... I'm unsure as to what the plastic compound is for the Apple II machine shell so do not know what would be safe to use to clean it! What cleaning solution (if any) do you use and what's your method of cleaning (i.e. what kind of cloth/sponge do you use and how do you apply it?)

Inside, what do you use for circuit board cleaning - I've heard Isopropyl is good for cleaning circuit boards generally, but is it too harsh for vintage boards such as the Apple II - Also, what method do you use to clean (i.e. What types of cleaning instruments do you use in addition to the chemicals, if any)

Thanks again!

-AC

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Focus Hard Card Questions - ROM 00/01/03 and issues with ProDOS 8

Submitted by rittwage on January 24, 2017 - 10:01pm

I recently found an old Focus Hard card for the IIgs (and IIe according to the manual).
The hard drive was bad on it, easily replaced and repartitioned using their software. NOTE: It takes many many hours to format a 30G drive.

The card works with GS/OS on my ROM03 machine just fine.
I reformatted it as regular ProDOS 8 so I could use it in a IIe or my ROM00 IIgs.

There are two problems with this:

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Anyone have PDF of Sanyo VM4209 service manual or schematics

Submitted by Corey986 on January 24, 2017 - 7:30pm

I have a monitor that is acting up with a wavy picture. I can't seem to find a trustable website. They all seem to be scams and Sam's doesn't seem to have a copy for sale.

Thanks,
Corey

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sdisk II boards/kits for sale

Submitted by rittwage on January 22, 2017 - 4:00pm

At some point last year, I decided to build one of these.
http://tulip-house.ddo.jp/DIGITAL/SDISK2/english.html

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Cross Platform Coding for the Apple ][

Submitted by ragooman on January 20, 2017 - 5:15pm

Anyone have some success with getting the right tools to setup a workflow for building a cross platform coding on the Apple ][ ?

I'm not sure if this topic has been covered here already. If so, I haven't had luck in finding this info, just some basic material so far.

I found some tools already which I hope someone can give us some advice to build a practical workflow. While helping Evan from the VCFed museum on his Lego robot project, the traditional method of coding directly on the vintage platform becomes a burden when trying to collaborate over the phone, email or online. Because you can't see what's on their screen and you can't share the screen online as with today's desktops. No amount of chit-chatting to summarize the code without looking at it directly is going to help. For the moment, he wants to work with Applesoft Basic, and perhaps later once the bugs are worked out and the project is running, then dive into some 6502 assembly.

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Apple II Europlus

Submitted by elfeodeloscalatrava on January 19, 2017 - 11:43am

Good afternoon, just arrived at this magnificent forum I present here as I have not found the post of presentations. I have for a few months, an Apple 2 Europlus that I have restored and cleaned the aesthetic parts. The computer has a Philips monitor, Languaje Card 16k, Prienter Card, Super Serial Card that I buy to connect Apple 2 to a PC and test the two Floppy disks and two joysticks for games(untested). That being said I will try to put some photography soon to show it.

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Are low SN Apple 2 drives rare?

Submitted by Apple2 on January 18, 2017 - 3:19pm

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