Well I finally tried booting my Sawtooth in 8.6 using Almeath's file which I burned to CD. Since my sawtooth had a bootrom of 4.2.8f1, I assumed that 8.6 booting was no longer poss…

UniDisk drive (which has a ton of problems with ejecting disks) Click to expand... That's fixable, Scott. Strip down the drive, clean it and relubricate it. If that fails (whic…

Documentation for the II family was incredible. The Red Book told you almost everything about how the computer worked -- the only other thing that you needed was the 6502 manual. …

No question posted on my birthday deserves to go permanently unanswered. Whether it is perverse or inverse, though, I shall address your third (and un-numbered question) first. Y…

As others have said, the Apple II is and always was a hobbyist system. In fact, the Apple II series used to come with a little booklet entitled "A Touch of AppleSoft BASIC" which e…

I found my Liron card and UniDisk drive (which has a ton of problems with ejecting disks). I'm going to set them aside as a backup since I found my IIe doesn't really sit comfortab…

Luddite is correct, they are much more of a hobbiest system. They are great to program on because they include both BASIC and the mini-assembler, and the limited resources don't o…

wow! the Powerbook 500 was really built well. Click to expand... But I always had a problem with the batteries sliding out. Had to use a giant rubberband to keep them in!

It's not the easiest thing getting a 3.5" drive hooked to an IIe. There's a page that lists some of the different compatibility notes for various types of Apple drives here: http…

I have 3 model IIgs systems, those are the only II's I have and probably the only model I want (turned down a free local II+ a few years back).

Writing your own programs is what makes the Apple II great in my opinion. It's much more of a hobbyist platform than the Mac.

Well perhaps the machine was cheap (99p) but the SCSI replacement card is going to hurt £60+ 8-o Click to expand... Although the SCSI Compact Flash adaptors are a good idea,…

There are a few different PowerPC upgrades out there for the 500 series. I think you must have a unit with the Apple card; when you shipped your 5xx to Apple to have the PowerPC d…

The upgrade cards themselves are very rare and probably mostly lurk inside long-forgotten 500 series PowerBooks. I'm still blown away by how cheaply you got it! Click to expand.…

The backup battery is powerful enough to maintain a powerbook in sleep mode for as much as a couple of days; they are rather robust when functional, in other words. The way the pow…

Relisted - AU$300 and one bidder already

It looks like nobody bought it, even after he listed it again for $100. FYI, as a former owner of a 5300 (plain 5300, greyscale) and a 1400cs, here is my advice: Stay away from p…

It be great to see a IIc get BenHecked

Backup (not just pram) batteries have several functions in a powerbook, so that it is unwise to rely on a powerbook without a functional backup battery. Click to expand... I've…

Anyone know much about the Powerbook 500 with PowerPC?Lowendmac and Apple-History do not have an entry for it, I would have thought it should since it was appears to be a separate …

No, the 500 series was marketed as ppc-upgradeable. So were other late 68k powerbooks like the 280c. It was standard marketing fare c. 1993-94. There were several 603e ppc upgrade…

I recently read something that desribed the introduction of the PowerBook 5300 and the negative impact it had, and that Apple produced the PPC upgrade for the 500 series as a respo…

Actually, the hard drive has to be formatted with "Mac OS 9 drivers" installed for the OS X disk to see it. You might be able to partition the drive with the OS 9 drivers on the on…

An OS 9 Install disc won't even 'see' the drive if OS 9 drivers were not installed when the drive was formatted, and before OS X was installed. You can install OS 9 into the same …

it wont boot anything but osx.. its irritating