• Apple Who

    From Spectre@21:3/105 to Vk3jed on Mon Jul 1 06:36:00 2019
    Did you ever have anything to do with Warp Six on your AppleII gear? Assuming it is A2 and not that other stuff... :)

    Spectre


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  • From Vk3jed@21:1/109 to Spectre on Mon Jul 1 12:25:00 2019
    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


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  • From Spectre@21:3/105 to Vk3jed on Mon Jul 1 16:04:00 2019
    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

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  • From Vk3jed@21:1/109 to Spectre on Mon Jul 1 17:21:00 2019
    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. :)


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  • From Spectre@21:3/105 to Vk3jed on Mon Jul 1 19:28:00 2019
    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. :)

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  • From Vk3jed@21:1/109 to Spectre on Mon Jul 1 20:18:00 2019
    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. :)

    Yeah, there were a lot of common parts used in those days, unlike today's ASICs and other customised parts. :)


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  • From Spectre@21:3/105 to Vk3jed on Thu Jul 18 00:44:00 2019
    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... :)

    Spectre


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  • From Vk3jed@21:1/109 to Spectre on Thu Jul 18 01:42:00 2019
    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.

    OK, cool. :)

    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... :)

    Yeah, well, I'm one who could experiment with gateways, that stuff is what I used to love playing with. Now if only NNTP servers were easier to get on to (the good ones now are pay ones it seems). I could experiment with my Synchronet system. :) Or I could even try and get GIGO back up, which would mean setting up an OS/2 VM for NNTP.


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  • From Spectre@21:3/106.10 to Vk3jed on Sat Nov 2 15:36:00 2019

    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.

    Spec


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  • From Vk3jed@21:1/109 to Spectre on Sun Nov 3 02:03:00 2019
    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.

    Bugger. :( I happen to have a spare CRO, but it's a long way down there. :( Or you might be able to pick one up cheap in 2 weeks at the Rosebud hamfest. :)


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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to Vk3jed on Thu Jan 23 20:29:00 2020
    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..

    Spec


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  • From Vk3jed@21:1/109 to Spectre on Sat Jan 25 11:35:00 2020
    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.

    Nice! :)

    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..

    Keep me posted. I'll probably be a little intermittent this weekend. I'm in Geelong for a 3 day track meet. Got the Linux netbook with me for some BBSing during downtime. :)


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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to Vk3jed on Sat Jan 25 18:52:00 2020
    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.
    I'll just have to keep my eyes peeled.

    Spec


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  • From Vk3jed@21:1/109 to Spectre on Sun Jan 26 02:47:00 2020
    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..

    Nice. :)

    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.

    Bummer, that's a bit of a pain. Oh well. :/

    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.

    Yeah, a bit of fun at the track. :)



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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to Vk3jed on Mon Jan 27 00:21:00 2020
    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.

    Spec


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  • From Vk3jed@21:1/109 to Spectre on Mon Jan 27 03:42:00 2020
    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.

    OK, will have to do that at some stage. :)



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  • From Vk3jed@21:1/109 to Spectre on Wed Mar 4 01:56:00 2020
    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.

    Cool. AFAIK mine works except for the PSU. I have to move some cards from a Japanese clone, but that's a trivial exercise.

    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..

    OK, cool. There's been some other changes my end, all for the better, but I'd rather use netmail or email.


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