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

Ahem, iMac, not iMAC. As long as you find an OS 9.1 disk, you should be fine.

It sure seems like a software problem. At the very worst, reinstalling OS X should fix it.