On 07-01-19 02:36, Spectre wrote to Vk3jed <=-
Did you ever have anything to do with Warp Six on your AppleII gear? Assuming it is A2 and not that other stuff... :)
No, never even heard of it. I only owned Apples later on. Back in
the day, I had to make doing with the school's Apples. :D
On 07-01-19 12:04, Spectre wrote to Vk3jed <=-
No, never even heard of it. I only owned Apples later on. Back in
the day, I had to make doing with the school's Apples. :D
I know that feeling, I didn't get my first one till I started work, and could buy it myself. Was an old beat up II+ and we're talking
desperately early 90's
Cool. Well I want to restore an Apple to full working condition.
:)
On 07-01-19 15:28, Spectre wrote to Vk3jed <=-
Cool. Well I want to restore an Apple to full working condition.
:)
A II+ is nice and easy to work on. Unless you're one of these types
that will only use date correct components, they were all common as
dirt, and are still pretty much all available. I think the 4116 memory
is probably the toughest ask. Nice part is almost everything is
socketed for your working convenience. :)
On 07-17-19 20:44, Spectre wrote to Vk3jed <=-
I was considering what we covered before and alluded in a recent
message. I think I should get out the made up wifimodem and hitch it up
to CloneE. If I can find the bits, I'll program the spare one before we somehow get it to you.
Having done that, I'll try hitching it up to CloneE with one of the "lesser" serial cards, so that you can get the use of the Super Serial Card as its the compatibility standard.
It might be time to pop aside the BBS activities, which are slowly
driving me batty at the moment, especially in the newsgroups gateway
dept, and get to some
of this stuff... :)
On 11-02-19 11:36, Spectre wrote to Vk3jed <=-
Aloha,
Time for an A2 update. After a lot of messing around, and even replacing some of the line drivers/recievers I'm no closer to actually having a serial card sorted out. Symptoms are exactly the same.
It works in loopback any any speed you care to set it to. But its very hard to
get a peep out of it when you hook it up to anything else. At this
point there is some conjecture it may not be setting correctly
according to its dipswitches. If this is the case, apparently the
easiest diagnosis will be with
a CRO which I don't own.
So there it sits again for the moment.
On 01-23-20 15:29, Spectre wrote to Vk3jed <=-
Hmm we might be a bit closer to getting you mobile in the II+ World. I haven't
done anything with it aside from take photos as yet. But I came home with a clone II+ this arvo.
It needs a bit of cleansing and some TLC, but we might be able to use
it to get
yours going. It came with a couple of interesting bits and pieces, no serial card though. I do however have my sights set on another one
thats up at the moment, its heading for $25 now, if it gets over that
I'm out.
If it doesn't come through, I might have to go back to my original
lead. I've been dredding that a bit, turns out I know the guy that has
it, and he was never fun to deal with. However he's meant to have one
for ~$15..
Nice! :)
Keep me posted. I'll probably be a little intermittent this weekend.
On 01-25-20 13:52, Spectre wrote to Vk3jed <=-
Nice! :)
Well despite some initial bonuses, it was relatively clean. Looks to me like it
was stored well for a long time, then recently someone maybe not the person that stored it originally got hold of it and left it in the
open. So I ripped it down washed the case, and tidied it up, she looks perdy now..
On the down side it also has a dead power supply. Open the box up,
its got the required blown fuse, 1 burnt out resistor, a second badly damaged right next to it, a shorted power transistor, and a blown diode
in the bridge...I replaced all that, and.... The smoke didn't get out,
it didn't explode in fact
it didn't do anything at all, no power anywhere. I'm still thinking
about this
one. I have plenty of ATX supplies, might have to do one of those and put fixing this one on the back burner for now.
Keep me posted. I'll probably be a little intermittent this weekend.
Intermittent away. The fleabay card has gotten over $30 so I'm out of
that one.
put fixing this one on the back burner for now.
Bummer, that's a bit of a pain. Oh well. :/
On 01-26-20 19:21, Spectre wrote to Vk3jed <=-
put fixing this one on the back burner for now.
Bummer, that's a bit of a pain. Oh well. :/
At some point I'm going to need a photo of your motherboard. There are
a few different power sockets kicking around. Be good to get it
identified to prevent
future problems.
On 01-23-20 15:29, Spectre wrote to Vk3jed <=-
Hmm we might be a bit closer to getting you mobile in the II+ World. I haven't done anything with it aside from take photos as yet. But I
came home with a clone II+ this arvo.
It needs a bit of cleansing and some TLC, but we might be able to use
it to get yours going. It came with a couple of interesting bits and pieces, no serial card though. I do however have my sights set on
another one thats up at the moment, its heading for $25 now, if it gets over that I'm out.
If it doesn't come through, I might have to go back to my original
lead. I've been dredding that a bit, turns out I know the guy that has
it, and he was never fun to deal with. However he's meant to have one
for ~$15..
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