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What's meant by double sided floppy discs ?

Submitted by Panther96 on October 2, 2008 - 1:30pm

OK, so it might seem a stupid question, but I'm more used to using 3 1/2 inch style floppies than the 5 1/4's.

I've got loads of Double Sided, Double Density 5 1/4's, but does the double sided mean the drive reads both sides with the disk in the drive, or that you can turn the disc over and read the other side, or am I barking up the wrong tree ?

:? :? :?

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Help with cards

Submitted by kwc on October 1, 2008 - 3:48pm

Came across some cards for the //e, but not quite sure what they are.

The 1st is an Apple card, labeled 1986, "The Engineering Dept", SRAM. Basically 3 IC's, two 62311c's, memory chips I think, and one PAL20R4ACNS. Is this some kind of memory card ?

The 2nd is a Legend Industries Soft Disk 128KDE. Populated with 16 - MB8264 memory chips. Would this be a 128k ram drive ?

Computer Inspector does not recognize either card. Software required ? Any chance either might work in the //gs ?

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Colour on a iie

Submitted by Panther96 on October 1, 2008 - 7:13am

I've looked up the Apple iie on wikipedia and it states some graphic modes as being in colour, does the iie have colour built in or is a seperate card required :?

Also out of interest I've read that it outputs a composite signal and therefore a standard TV with composite input can be used, mine is a UK 240v model, so would it be in PAL or NTSC ?

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Super Serial Card Cables

Submitted by Panther96 on October 1, 2008 - 2:49am

I'm trying to connect my iie to my PC and have decided that a Super Serial card is the way to go, I've tried the audio route without success Sad

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Uising Your Voice in Scholastic and Super Story Tree

Submitted by macman223 on September 29, 2008 - 7:08am

I wanted to add my voice to the text parts of the story, so I used Double Talk to record my voice
is there anyway I can use Double Talk files in Super Story Tree?

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Apple IIe questions

Submitted by mmay519 on September 28, 2008 - 2:41pm

Hi, Everyone--

I have some questions about the Apple IIe that I can't seem to find the answers. I have tried Google, and still haven't found what I was looking for:

1. Can all versions of the IIe (regular, Enhanced, Platinum) do the same things, or do each of the revisions allow the use to do more?

2. Can all versions run AppleWorks 3 (3 1/2" and 5 1/4" versions?)

3. Are all three capable of using the Uther card?

4. Do all versions come with 80-column cards?

Thank you in advance for your help!

Mike

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CF Hard Drive Opinions Wanted

Submitted by ChildrenOfNiobi on September 25, 2008 - 3:23pm

Hi all,

I want to get a Compact Flash card for my IIGS (ROM 01) and I was wondering if those of you who have one or more of them would chime in on what you have, as well as likes / dislikes (if any) and any gotchas that I should be aware of. I'm just getting back into the Apple II platform and I'm pretty fuzzy on details after all this time (read: I've completely forgotten everything), so any help would be appreciated.

Here's what I'm considering:

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Magic Blue Smoke

Submitted by kwc on September 24, 2008 - 6:08pm

Fedex delivered the Apple IIe yesterday. Hooked it up and all was working. Running some diagnostics and I saw (and heard) the puff of smoke coming from the power supply.

Turns out is was a capacitor. Looks like a bypass cap, .1 microfarad. There are two right up where the ac line enters the power supply chassis. Anyone know where to get a schematic of the IIe power supply ? Got a couple of replacement caps at Radio Shack, installed one and all seems to work, but would like to verify the caps function.

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Looking for George R. Wilde

Submitted by kwc on September 23, 2008 - 9:47am

George,

You wrote a program called "UtilityWorks" back in 1988. I use the program and would like to send you the shareware fee requested.

And, have you written any updates in the last 20 years ???? Smile

kwc

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Accelerate This!

Submitted by gsmcten on September 22, 2008 - 2:32pm

Accelerate This!

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