Apple II

Hi Fans -

as you might know, I'm working on my Replica 2e project which aims to produce a substitute for all Apple II from the early ones to the Apple IIe and the Apple IIc without using any of Apple's proprietary custom ICs, like the MMU, IOU and  the IWM. The link to the project thread is here:

https://www.applefritter.com/content/uncle-bernies-replica-2e-ww-prototype-apple-iie-replica

I’m sure a number of you have similar concerns, so here goes.

I have a number of Apple II (Rev 2 and 3), and II+ (Rev 4, 7, and RFI) computers, some even with original boxes.  All work and have drives and multiple add-on cards.  I’m planning for the future where these will have to go.

So after some minor cleaning and reseating chips, My Franklin ACE 100 (not 1000), is ALIVE!  Floppies were way out of speed, but that did not take long either.  Of course the foam and foil keyboard is totally dead and I will order a set of pads from TexElec to revive the keyboard.  There is an extra board extending down from the keyboard on the power supply sided (possibly an encoder board), otherwise the keyboard looks much like the ACE 1000 with the standard DIP-16 keyboard cable like on a ][+.  The ACE 100 from March of 1982 was mostly a mass produced prototype (2000 produced) and most o

I didn't have a working mouse for my //c. That ended earlier this week.

A tweak of an earlier design I used for Atari ST using a WinChipHead (Nanjing Qinheng Microelectronics) CH series microcontroller. The perf board prototype works great and PCB's are on the way. Most any USB HID or wireless HID (with a USB receiver) mouse can act as a //c mouse, or as an input device for a ][ or //e buss mouse card.

If there is any interest let me know. I'm still undecided on how to make this available.