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Broke my Apple II cherry yesterday...

Submitted by luckybob on September 11, 2017 - 12:34am

first post, I'm just a sponge for information at this point.

There was a Craigslist ad here in Denver, someone had 3 compact macs and a IIe all for $40. Naturally I was all over it like a fat kid on a cupcake.

Even made a video about what I got: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBRr1OrCCrw (Shameless self promotion, I know)

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Apple IIe, Duodisk No Access Light

Submitted by LikaVos on September 8, 2017 - 9:05pm

Hi,
I need help diagnosing why my DuoDisk, on my Apple IIe, now shows no access light, and a short buzz, after pulling it apart and cleaning the heads. It also shows an IO error when using INIT on DOS.
Thanks

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Super Serial Card not working, but not dead either

Submitted by maniac on September 4, 2017 - 7:27pm

I'm trying to resurrect an old enhanced IIe. So far, I've gotten everything working again, except for the Super Serial Card. I'm able to run a few diagnostic tools, all of which see it as an unknown card. APEX II sees it as: 44 80 168 184 56. The correct values for an SSC are 44 80 169 184 56, so it's only off by one. I'm wondering if it might be one bad chip on the board somewhere I could replace. I have a second old IIe motherboard, which I've already used to cannibalize parts and repair a bad RAM chip on the 80col card.

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Picked up Apple II Plus, Apple IIe and two UniDisk drives; asking for valuation and identification

Submitted by alexlatham on September 4, 2017 - 12:04am

Hi everyone. I recently picked up an Apple II Plus with the raised power switch, Apple IIe, and a couple UniDisk drives as the previous owner was going to throw them away. I don't know much about earlier Apple computers. Either way, I took them home to see if they worked.

While I don't have any diskettes to test the UniDisk drives, they did do the normal floppy seek. Both models power on and display as normal.

Apple II Plus gallery: [url=https://imgur.com/a/qOyWn]https://imgur.com/a/qOyWn[/url]

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Connecting the Apple IIc to a TV or LCD Monitor

Submitted by MaxTek on August 30, 2017 - 3:20pm

Is there anyway to connect the Apple IIc to a CRT TV, a Flat Screen TV or a Flat Panel Monitor. I have tried using an RCA cable many ways and can't get a single on any of the TVs or Monitors.

Thanks.

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Strange problem with Apple IIc Please Help

Submitted by MaxTek on August 30, 2017 - 3:18pm

I have an Apple IIc and I can't get the floppy to spin up "unless" I unplug the floppy cable from the floppy drive slightly. When only 2-3 pins are making contact the floppy spins the disk very nicely and the red disk use light comes on. When I have the floppy cable plugged in all the way I can't get the IIc to make the drive do anything.

Any ideas? Thanks.

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TWGS cache test failed and how to fix it?

Submitted by aigeek on August 28, 2017 - 4:32pm

I have an Apple IIGS ROM01 w/ TWGS (TransWarp GS) 7MHz / 32K Cache, when it's cold booted, it can work smoothly.

But when it get hot or reboot, it will get Self-Test **Failed**3 on step "Cache RAM".

when hot reboot after TWGS self-test failed, got the error code $0046.

I had try to replace all three cache chips with new set of 25ns, but no lucky.

How can I do?

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How about a benchmark software project for Apple IIs ?

Submitted by aigeek on August 28, 2017 - 3:57pm

When I still keep enhancing my IIGS with TWGS, I wonder why there is not a system benchmark software for Apple II family, and do you wanna get one ？

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Apple II Rev 0 Valuation

Submitted by 1978AppleII on August 27, 2017 - 3:19pm

Hi guys!

I have been in contact with a very nice woman who is looking to possibly sell 2 early Apple II computer's that were owned by her late husband.

The first one is a Rev 0, Serial number A2S1-1194.

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Two more cards for which I'm looking for information('s)

Submitted by tokabln on August 26, 2017 - 1:09pm

Dear members,

I received two additional cards (beside an Apple IEEE-488 card) for which I'm looking for some information.

They are:

a WICO Smartcard IIe
a Valvo V24-3 ND59 card

Does anyone has have some information('s) for me, like manuals, schematics, supporting programs... ?

Many thanks

Torsten

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