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MPC AP-SIO info?

Submitted by SavingOldKit on November 7, 2019 - 1:43pm

I acquired an Apple IIe  enhanced and it came with an MPC AP-SIO card installed. It has a DB-25 connector on the other end of the ribbon cable. It looks like a clone serial card. I can find reference in on-line copies of Byte magazine and google books to the IBM-SIO card and to other MPC cards but not this one. Anyone familiar  with these? Anyone know the dip settings?

 

Thanks.

 

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Early IIe

Submitted by falter on November 5, 2019 - 6:52pm

Bought this today.  I am wondering if anyone else out there has an early (sub-5000) IIe for comparison purposes.  I'm very curious about the story behind the serial numbers.   The serial on mine is 'A2S2-1320'.   As we all know, A2S2 is the prefix for the II+.  I'm curious if someone messed up in the beginning.  Did they simply add a 1 to the prefix (1A2S2) as a quickie fix for that mistake?  I'm assuming they wouldn't have intended to have two Apple IIs with the same serial number.

 

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1bXGr9PtG_weFU9pkAN_odoZnM-t4afnC?usp=sharing

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Apple //c monitor stand broken/missing parts

Submitted by william_tell on November 3, 2019 - 11:28am

Hi, I picked up an Apple //c which included the 9 inch monitor and stand.  The stand wouldn't hold the monitor up so I took it apart to find the following....

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hello all and a plea for help on a II Europlus :)

Submitted by Catpuss on November 2, 2019 - 6:31am

Hello all.

Finally got myslef a Europlus.

After replacing D1 to sort out the image shimmer and all the 4116's I finally got a screen up and was in basic.

Testing GR and HG I was getting parrael white lines instead of colour.

 

Now this is where I did a stupid moment. I pulled the LS02 from the far right of row B, but in a moment of blindness inserted it upside down.

 

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3 Sites Apple II :)

Submitted by Spectre on November 1, 2019 - 10:04pm

The Lower Planes: www,telnet,ssh on all the usual ports

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Power Supply Apple IIe

Submitted by martin72 on October 26, 2019 - 5:16pm

 

Recently, I've bought a nice Apple IIe with 2 floppy drives. This is a model for Europe, so the power supply is for 220 V. I want check the power supply before I start this computer and I am searching for the schematic and BOM of the a2m0030 astec powersupply for the Apple IIe. Can someone help me with this?

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Apple III video question

Submitted by Corey986 on October 24, 2019 - 10:38am

Hi,

At the VCF Museum we are adding some LCD TVs to some of our displays for systems that are on display shelves that are not at desk level. We have an Apple III that we want to hook up to one of these TV monitors. I know the they work with 40 column Apple II systems, but the Apple III is 80 column video.

I can't seem to get it working with composite video on the TV (my guess is the 14mhz vs 7mhz dot rate is the issue), but does anyone have any experience with any converter boxes to HDMI with the Apple III and any recommendations on which one to try?

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Any tips or suggestions for getting a "Tecnobytes ClassicIDE" working in a IIGS?

Submitted by SpaceBoy on October 23, 2019 - 1:48am

So a few years ago I bought a Tecnobytes ClassicIDE board for my Apple IIe / IIGS, and I'm finally trying to get it working. This is a card which allows an Apple II-series machine to use a CompactFlash card as though it were a hard drive. Very cool... if I could get it working!I've been following the guide as closely as I can, using "known good" CF cards (a 128meg and a 256meg, the smallest ones I have around), not nothing I do seems to get the IIGS to actually boot from the CF card.

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Apple IIe PAL Keyboard problems

Submitted by robbo007 on October 21, 2019 - 6:17am

Morning,

I've just fired up my second Apple IIe PAL and found Im having strange keyboard probelms.  There seems to be a delay when I press a key it then displays the text. Sometime nothing comes out. I press like 4-5 keys and then it starts working. Its very intemidant. I've run XPS diagnostics as this is a non enhanced apple IIe and the RAM, ROMS etc are all good. I've run the onboard diagnostics too and I get the KERNEL OK message. 

 

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