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How do soft-switches work? — #5

Most people have a nasty tendency to think that memory is something where you specify a memory location, the CPU applies that memory location to the address lines, then the CPU rea…
68kMLA Hardware by II2II Fri, 27 Feb 2009 - 03:48

How do soft-switches work? — #4

A handful of 74LS* chips. Sather's "Understanding the Apple II" would probably help here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/201423/Understanding-the-Apple-II-by-Jim-Sather-1983Quality-So…
68kMLA Hardware by david__schmidt Fri, 27 Feb 2009 - 02:50

What to do with spare Pismo LCDs — #4

Addenum to Holy Grail with a bit more info, from http://theducks.livejournal.com/492985.html I hang out on a number of modding boards around the internet. The "Holy Grail" i…
68kMLA Hardware by ~Coxy Fri, 27 Feb 2009 - 02:38

How do soft-switches work? — #3

Do you know what hardware this is? I only have a IIgs, so I suppose that is incorporated in the Mega II, but what about on the older models?
68kMLA Hardware by Dog Cow Fri, 27 Feb 2009 - 01:43

How do soft-switches work? — #2

Soft switches have a hardware component: there is circuitry that reacts to particular address lines being tickled. That's why things like peek can affect them from BASIC.
68kMLA Hardware by david__schmidt Thu, 26 Feb 2009 - 22:57

How do soft-switches work? — #1

Here's a question for which I have not found the answer: The Apple II, as you should know, has some soft-switches, memory locations which cause some setting to change. My question…
68kMLA Hardware by Dog Cow Thu, 26 Feb 2009 - 22:40

What to do with spare Pismo LCDs — #3

Some people have basically recased a laptops guts in a box and made the LCD seperate using a home made cable. There are old ISA cards that talk directly but they are probably for o…
68kMLA Hardware by Unknown_K Thu, 26 Feb 2009 - 21:17

What to do with spare Pismo LCDs — #2

http://www.applefritter.com/holygrail Excerpted from the Applefritter FAQ Q: How do I turn this laptop/iMac screen into a monitor? A: Put simply you don't. Whilst it is pos…
68kMLA Hardware by coius Thu, 26 Feb 2009 - 21:06

What to do with spare Pismo LCDs — #1

I needed new clutch hinges for my Pismo so I won an auction on eBay that contained two sketchy LCDs and one set of hinges. So I have a couple of spare Pismo LCDs. One is supposed…
68kMLA Hardware by Dennis Nedry Thu, 26 Feb 2009 - 20:46

Get the most out of it — #5

it will take some time until you have conquered the device. Click to expand... I've been learning that, but each time it does something I don't want it to, (I learn) and am ama…
68kMLA Networking by LCARS Thu, 26 Feb 2009 - 06:32

Get the most out of it — #4

Join NTLK list As for advice, the Newton is great, but takes a LONG time and a lot of patience to learn and get working properly. Once we have a proper knowledgebase site working…
68kMLA Networking by freudling Wed, 25 Feb 2009 - 22:59

Get the most out of it — #3

Thank you for the links. I can't believe I've gone this long without a Newton.
68kMLA Networking by LCARS Wed, 25 Feb 2009 - 01:09

Tray Load question — #4

http://www.wileytradegroup.com/imac_repair/imac.pdf ...via Gamba (RIP).
68kMLA Hardware by ~tl Tue, 24 Feb 2009 - 20:16

Tray Load question — #3

I found that last night, sadly, its all slot-load. :-/
68kMLA Hardware by Christopher Tue, 24 Feb 2009 - 19:33

Tray Load question — #2

Check out this site/document http://www.scribd.com/doc/103447/iMax-G3-Disassembly-Guide/
68kMLA Hardware by mac2geezer Tue, 24 Feb 2009 - 17:08

Tray Load question — #1

I need the service manual. Serching high and low only gives me the slot load. I have removed the CRT completely and now I don't remember what the non standard looking cables are an…
68kMLA Hardware by Christopher Tue, 24 Feb 2009 - 07:02

Get the most out of it — #2

Pretty much all the software you'll ever need is here: http://www.unna.org And for a wifi driver, this does the trick with many different cards: http://www.ff.iij4u.or.jp/~ngc/eng…
68kMLA Networking by Rodus Mon, 23 Feb 2009 - 23:45

Get the most out of it — #1

Hi everyone. I have recently acquired a beautiful Newton 2000. I only have the factory programs on it right now, and I'm wondering if anyone has any advice on how to get the most o…
68kMLA Networking by LCARS Mon, 23 Feb 2009 - 23:29

Now ~that's~ rare! — #8

It ended at AUD $664.32. I sure hope the person who bought knew about this item in-depth, otherwise he's in for some real disappointment!
68kMLA Hardware by joshc Sat, 21 Feb 2009 - 17:57

Need a decent PowerBook (603 or G3) — #12

If you would like extra speed and battery life, I would recomend the G3. I used to have one, which didn't cost me too much, and the single battery would last a good few hours. As n…
68kMLA Hardware by steve30 Sat, 21 Feb 2009 - 15:32

Now ~that's~ rare! — #7

I honestly don't know if this is worth it except to hardcore collectors. The IIc lcd is really quite horrible to actually use, almost unusable I'd say. If you must have a nice clas…
68kMLA Hardware by arfink Sat, 21 Feb 2009 - 05:57
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