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Resurrecting an Apple //e --- Part 2 --- The DuoDisk Drives

Submitted by KimKimberly on January 31, 2021 - 10:42pm

I thought maybe it would be best to create this "Part 2" so the sub-topic of DuoDisk would be easier to find and maybe someone in the future would be helped by following my progress with each part of the //e  resurrection.

 

Part 1 - The Power Supply is here: https://www.applefritter.com/content/resurrecting-apple-e.It started to divert a little from just the power supply (with some pretty good tips and advice about dirty disks), and some other folks discovered the same capacitor fix I did (again with great help from the folks here) so it's still a good read for that.

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Ortho Personalized Plant Selector

Submitted by brimars on January 31, 2021 - 7:41pm

Several years ago I purchased a number of vintage computers  (in very poor condition) with a few hundred disks. Most are damaged to some degree but one stood out: Chevron logo, Ortho Personalized Plant Selector. Has anyone run this program on a real IIe? I can't get it to run either by booting or using a ProDOS boot disk separately on my IIe Platinum. I also have an unenhanced IIe but it's a pain to get it hooked up so I figured I'd see if anyone has run this.

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16p to 9p Joystick Adapter

Submitted by Timelord on January 31, 2021 - 7:22am

I have a few of these, and before I use one, I just want a reminder. Should the red stripe be on the front (toward the KB), or away (toward case back)?

 

I will likely do a pinout continuity check ere using it, but I figured I would ask before I spend that bother. I think that pin 1 is the lower-left pin on the internal connector, but that is from memory, which tells me that the red stripe should be on the borrom, towared the KB. I suppose I can connect it and check for vcc on the right output pin; probably the easiest way. 

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Anybody know of any Apple II Rev. 0s out there for sale? Thanks!

Submitted by tradeya on January 30, 2021 - 7:37pm

I'm a real buyer who has a few very high end Apple collectibles. If you know of anything, kindly let me know.

 

Thanks!

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Apple II+ System

Submitted by brimars on January 29, 2021 - 9:35pm

Recently bought a II+ system from a gent. The system included a number of cards including a Thunderclock+, Softcard and languagecard, Everex 80 column card, etc.

Unfortunately, I keep coming back to a //e that I bought several years ago because that's what my folks bought me back in 198? I think it was my 15th birthday but we won't talk about the actual year. I might have taken a few parts from the II+ since there were some issues... now the //e is quite nice but the II+ is a little light on hardware now.

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Apple II Keyboard Repair or Replace

Submitted by rgates59 on January 28, 2021 - 6:30pm
Hello I need to replace about 10 key switches on my Apple II keyboard. Does anyone have replacement switches available? Or even a refurbished apple II keyboard. Thanks
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Dead Apple II+, good power on beep, but only ?'s displayed

Submitted by djw on January 27, 2021 - 5:18pm

Hi,

Longtime watcher, first time poster.  I recently got an Apple II+ from ebay and am trying to get it working.  Seller reported the power supply was dead, and that proved to be totally wrong.  I've gotton to the point where it will boot up to all question marks (common fault of course), but I do have a power on and reset key beep - so it seems it is kinda working.  I have not seen that scenario (beep with question marks) mentioned here - usually no beep when only question marks.  Any help on what to focus in on would be appreciated.

Here is the saga so far...

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Compressed picts

Submitted by toniB on January 27, 2021 - 10:33am

Hello to everyone, I have a bunch of old 5'4 floppies where are stored many pictures. They are in a compressed format with the suffix .PAC and were compressed using a software program called Transition by Penguin Software. I still have it and it runs letting me viewing the pictures, but I'd like to save them uncompressed to transfer them to my Mac. Unfortunately, the program doesn't allow me to unpack the pictures. Does anyone know a method or software to rescue them? Thanks

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Apple IIe ALPS logstem Keyboard big headache.

Submitted by OLD One on January 22, 2021 - 3:39pm

Hello everyone,

my name is Michael and I made a dream come true ... 36 years later ....

 

At the age of 14 (in 1985) I wanted an Apple IIe so bad. Now 36 years I got one of eBay with ten non working ALPS log stem keys.

Nothing brocken, nothing damaged but non working.

 

I took out the 10 keys, rebent that little spingy thing and gave that brass plates a thorough wash with what we germans call "Tuner Spray 900" for delicate contacts.

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Microsoft Softcard II (not e) docs

Submitted by Boletus on January 20, 2021 - 9:10am

Hi,

I'm lookin for Microsoft Softcard II Cp/m (6mhz, 64k ram onboard, not 'e' model) "System" manual or schematic diagram.Does anyone have one of these?

 

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