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ADTPro question(s)

Submitted by kwc on July 24, 2008 - 7:19pm

Just added a second 3.5" drive to the gs. It's daisychained gs to 3.5 drive to 3.5 drive to 5 1/4 drive. ADTPro recognizes all the drives but when I try and format a floppy in the 2nd 3.5 drive. it comes back as 280 blocks, not 1600. I've reformated the disk but no change. Remove the 2nd 3.5 drive and all is well. And, the previously formatted disks now report 1600 blocks. Ideas ?

Transferring disk images, dsk, po, 2mg, to floppy's, no problems. But, how do I transfer files, not images, to the CF hard drive ?

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I'm a GS newbe!

Submitted by marktbaldridge on July 24, 2008 - 3:13pm

Hello all,

I have been looking into buying an apple IIgs on eBay, but I have a few questions and I want to be totally prepared.

1) Is it true that unless you have a special apple RGB monitor that you only get monochrome? Even using the composite out to a TV?

2) Do I have to use an 800k 3.5" floppy? Do they make 1.44M drives? Or could I use my old apple IIc external 5.25" drive?

3) What kind of setup do I need for a hard drive? And is one necessary?

4) Will a Macintosh ADB keyboard and mouse work?

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29.91666666667k memory chips?!

Submitted by iamdigitalman on July 24, 2008 - 2:40pm

I have been cobbling together a pretty nice ultimate IIgs over the last few months. Rom 3, Woz case, memory board with all populated chips, 3.5" and 5.25" drives, 2 hard drives (need a SCSI card for that, though I have the cables, and software, grr), and original keyboard and mouse.

In my workings, I pulled a fully populated Apple Memory Expansion Board from one of my ROM 01 machines. I got curious as to how large the add on chips are on the board.

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THE APPLESOFT TUTORIAL

Submitted by A2forever on July 24, 2008 - 2:05am

Anyone know of a site that has the Applesoft Tutorial in .PDF form?

Thanks.

Patrick.
A2forever

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Apple II systems in current non-hobbyist use?

Submitted by Lancaster on July 23, 2008 - 10:22pm

A while ago I was visiting a buddy who is a TA at the physics department for a state university, and I was stunned to see an Apple //e hooked to a data-collection setup. It was for some kinematics experiment, for an introductory-level class.

Wasn't his idea or anything - many of the experimental setups were inherited from previous staff, and simply left as-is unless something broke. I did some digging later on, and apparently the //e was shipped as the standard interface for certain models of mass spectrometers, some (many?) of which are still in use, //e and all!

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Are Disketter cleaning kits useful? (particularly for an old working Disk ][)

Submitted by arukum17 on July 23, 2008 - 6:59am

Debating whether to invest in one of these (they aren't that expensive). My late 1970s Disk ][ drive is functioning well at the moment without cleaning.

If it ain't broke...

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Truster Hard Drive . Help needed!

Submitted by A2forever on July 23, 2008 - 5:51am

hey guys , I have an old Truster Hard Drive , think it's a 20 meg or so drive. There might be a problem with the card that connects in the II+ itself , cannot get it to bootup all the way , hopefully someone here knows a little bit about the hard drive , that can possibly give me some advice about how to fix it.

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Apple IIc manual

Submitted by marktbaldridge on July 22, 2008 - 5:34pm

I bought an apple IIc off of eBay, and I have been using a reference manual from an apple II+. There are some extra hardware features on the IIc that I would like to make use of, but I have no documentation. Is there a separate manual for the IIc? if so, does anyone know where I could find one? Maybe even in PDF format?

Thanks,
Mark Baldridge

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Apple IIGS outsold Macintosh?

Submitted by Lancaster on July 21, 2008 - 2:15pm

From the Wikipedia article for the Apple IIGS:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_iigs

"The machine outsold all other Apple products, including the Macintosh, during its first year in production."

Anyone happen to have actual figures on that? If the IIGS was released in 1986, then it would have overlapped with the Mac 512K and Mac Plus.

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Apple IIc, Laserjet 4 and Visiterm

Submitted by dc1mik on July 20, 2008 - 12:37pm

Hello!

I tried to connect my IIc to a HP Lasejet 4p printer. The printer is equipped with a serial interface which is set to 9600Bd,8,N,1. If I connect the Printer to a PC everthing works perfectly, but if I connect it to the Apple IIc nothing happens. I've already checked the wiring several times. If I connect the IIc directly to a PC running a terminal application I can see the characters sent from the apple.

Is there anybody who has succesfully connected a laserjet to an apple II?

Additionally I am looking for a command reference or manual for Visiterm.

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