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Disk II won't write

Submitted by dramsey on May 8, 2014 - 11:00pm

I just got a couple of nice Disk ][ drives off eBay-- the first-generation, metal-cased drives with the ribbon cables.

They're both clean and work perfectly, except the second drive won't write-- judging from the error messages I'm getting, it thinks all disks are write-protected. (IO Error 16 and the like).

Otherwise, it's perfect-- I can boot DOS, ProDOS, and Pascal from it with no problem.

I've checked with a multimeter and the write-protect switch seems to work fine, so I guess the problem is electrical. Any ideas?

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ZipChipGS...

Submitted by transwarp II guy on May 8, 2014 - 3:37pm

Hi everyone;

According to this article there is a "ZipChipGS":

http://www.apple-iigs.info/doc/fichiers/zipgs.pdf

So is this thing real or vaporware? I’ve never ever seen a picture of one in the last 20 years that I’ve searched!

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Mysterious IIgs Switch

Submitted by bushnrvn on May 6, 2014 - 10:11am

I won this machine last night from the Goodwill auction site. Any idea what this switch is for? Unfortunately, I only have this photo from the listing until I go pick the machine up - probably later today.

Also there is a pic of the serial #. With what I think is a copyright date of 1989, I am hoping this a ROM 3 machine but I wanted to check the serial # to be sure. I have a feeling someone here knows how to decipher it.

Thanks.

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DOS in ROM - impossible?

Submitted by galaxina on May 5, 2014 - 12:30pm

I'm sure there's a very simple technical explanation why it can't be done, but I've not found it yet.

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Apple II Raspberry Pi Case

Submitted by tranter on May 2, 2014 - 3:27pm

I saw this today:

https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/188160742/apple-ii-raspberry-pi-case

Not cheap. Note that it is not the same size as the original.
There is also a Disk II styled USB SD card reader.

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CF on a Vulcan

Submitted by Wayne on April 30, 2014 - 9:46pm

There has been a bit of discussion on some sites about using a compact flash with an ide adapter to connect to a Vulcan hard drive controller. While looking through some stuff, I discovered I had a 16mb CF. Connected it via adapter to a IIgs Vulcan controller. Formatted alright with the AE Partition Manager and showed up on the IIgs desktop. So I copied the hard drive over and proceeded to boot off the Vulcan controller.

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Drive failures after using asciiexpress.net Apple Disk Server

Submitted by dcpyatt on April 30, 2014 - 5:44pm

Help! Disk Server killed two of my drives!

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I found floppies....where do I send them?

Submitted by havediscs on April 28, 2014 - 10:49pm

I found some Apple II floppies in the basement and a rare game that doesn't appear to be on the FTP site may be on one. Where do I send them?

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Apple iic disk drive trouble

Submitted by helpneeded14 on April 28, 2014 - 12:28am

I am having trouble with an Apple iic of mine. Can anyone help me?

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My first Apple ///

Submitted by Zan8675 on April 27, 2014 - 8:26pm

Evening all (at least evening where I am!)

Decided to dip into the Apple III arena and picked one up today. The machine is in desperate need of a cleaning, but everything works. Comes w/a PKASO printer card and Corvus Interface card w/cable.

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