My guess is that the screw shorted out something on the motherboard when the system was powered on, delivering current or too much current to something not expecting it. Is the 70…

Well my dual450 G4 has been sitting for three weeks or so, and I am now going to use it during this when I sell my 20" iMac. I hit the power and I hear a sizzle and a single long b…

Am I the only one here who has ever actually loaded a program from a cassette tape? Click to expand... Nope, I started out with a Trash-80 (TRS-80) Model I Level II with all of…

Sure...just don't expect me to spoon. Click to expand... So I suppose a fork's out of the question. Click to expand... Not if I'm feeling frisky.

Ohyes. I can well remember doing tape loads and saves on an Australian clone of the TRS-80, among other machines. Sure...just don't expect me to spoon. Click to expand..…

... I had a Mattel Aquarius. Click to expand... Holy Cannoli !! lol Me too ! 8^ ] My grandmother pickd it up in a type of "Surplus Store" -- where some guy buys overstock of…

... I had a Mattel Aquarius. Click to expand... Holy Cannoli !! lol Me too ! 8^ ] My grandmother pickd it up in a type of "Surplus Store" -- where some guy buys overstock of…

This is up there on a 1-10 scale of geekdom.

Sure...just don't expect me to spoon. Click to expand... So, a full share of the rent then? Click to expand... OK, maybe a cuddle....I don't spoon so soon.

Uuuurgh... Unfortunately, yes. I have tried to load from cassette. It was horrible. Eventually I said screw it and recorded the cassette tape onto the computer - that worked much b…

Am I the only one here who has ever actually loaded a program from a cassette tape? Click to expand... I have a Realistic™ tape recorder specially designed for computer use (it…

Sure...just don't expect me to spoon. Click to expand... So, a full share of the rent then?

This is just edging me closer to buying an Apple I replica. Maybe we can be room-mates after the divorces ;-) Click to expand... Sure...just don't expect me to spoon.

Am I the only one here who has ever actually loaded a program from a cassette tape? Click to expand... Definitely not. I've done it as a kid on a Commodore CBM (don't remember…

Yeah, but what about a shameless plug for over the cassette port? The same audio processing applies.

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 …