Am I the only one here who has ever actually loaded a program from a cassette tape? Click to expand... Certainly not, ZX-81, ZX Spectrum 48k and CBM-64. The CBM-64 was the mos…

Am I the only one here who has ever actually loaded a program from a cassette tape?

This is just edging me closer to buying an Apple I replica. Maybe we can be room-mates after the divorces ;-)

Folks, I don't think you can get any geekier than this. Retro reverse engineering: Reconstructing Apple I BASIC from a Cassette Tape If my wife ever found out that I found this S…

i could always send you out one for cheap it you need one pm me.

Replacement power supplies aren't all that hard to come by, but they'll usually cost you more than a complete IIe. I've heard that long periods of disuse cause this... if you have…

As everyone knows, electronics run on magic smoke. When the magic smoke escapes, they don't work any more.

I sell lots of IIe's and this only happened to one customer, I think it was caused by the aging caps in it, I was not there so I can not say for sure, another power supply should f…

Well that's something no user wants to hear. I picked up my Apple IIe at a recycling event today. I powered it up for the second time ever. Got it all hooked up to the monitor, got…

all fixed now I had to press the magic reset button next to the pram battery and a phone call to macupgrades where I got the Sonnet 1.8Ghz prosessor and they advised to select the …

... The longterm puzzle is to find a Gefen EXT-VGA-2-ADC adapter so that they can share a 17" ADC Studio Display. Click to expand... eBay's @#$%&* software fritzed on m…

The PMU of the Sawtooth and later Macs is a little more all-encompassing than the PMUs of older PowerBooks. Newer PMUs are rather more wide-ranging, and Apple describes them as 'c…

does that switch do the same or more ? Click to expand... Well, er, it didn't have a sign on it saying "Do not press this button".....

I hit the reset button by the pram battery and it started to work ( well at least it's starting up now) I still got to figure out why Leopard is not booting what is that reset but…

Start back tracking. My G3 B+W refused to start, I opened it up and there is a little reset switch on the motherboard, I pushed that and it burst into life. I disassembled the fro…

I have G4 AGP (450Mhz) which I have just upgraded with a Sonnet Encore 1.8Ghz processor and I have been running it ok for about a week and a halve with tiger 10.4.11 with all the l…

Gefen Click to expand... Griffin? with an 83MHz-rated Grackle and Rev. F ROM. So, it runs 416MHz on an 83MHz bus Click to expand... I wish I could find a beige wit…

I just caught up on this thread. I'm going to have to dig up some of my supposedly "dead" beige motherboards and try TechTool on them. Thanks for the tip Driverguru. Meanwhile: …

my 2300c /my 12" G4 PB Click to expand... beachycove, you might be able to help settle a question for me. I've thought of the keyboard from a 12" PB or iBook as a transplant f…

It was the IDE interface. What makes me 100% sure is that it connected in a different spot on the motherboard as the 270c's hard drive -- a spot that was absent in the 270c but pr…

The 1GB HD in it died Click to expand... Was that on the SCSI or the IDE header? The reason I ask is that if it was a SCSI disk, it's very likely (at that size) that it's a…

my 2300c /my 12" G4 PB Click to expand... beachycove, you might be able to help settle a question for me. I've thought of the keyboard from a 12" PB or iBook as a transplant f…

And the Seagate ST1 series (like the one I just picked up) have 2MB of onboard cache RAM. They won't do much for your battery life though - a bit better than a 2.5" disk, but not …

What about a CF Microdrive? Click to expand... They are real spinning disks and hence have different behaviour to flash memory, slower, but can be treated as a traditional hard…

What about a CF Microdrive?