It's in working order, but Drive 2 sounds very ill, some keys stick (Y, P, ~, C, Cursor Down) and the PSU needs new X2 caps. New solder station arrives tomorrow so I can do just that!
The program EVERYONE writes in any language ever.
As someone not from North America, an Apple II of any kind is completely unchartered territory. They were not that popular outside of the US and Canada. I have a LOT to learn about this thing.
Ein hochintegrierter Apple II Computer in einem vergilbten Kunststoffgehäuse. Das ist der Apple IIc, der eine neue Designsprache bei Apple eingeführt hat. Heute berichte ich über diesen Computer in meinem Computermuseum.
Der siebte Beitrag in meiner Reihe von Beiträgen zur Neugestaltung der Ausstellung in meinem Computermuseum. Heute und an weiteren 26 Tagen stelle ich die Zusammenstellung meiner Ausstellungsstücke vor. Ich bin ein großer Apple Fan. Nicht nur seit meinem ersten gekauften Apple Computer, ein MacBook aus dem Jahr 2007. Schon früh war ich ein Fan der grafischen Benutzeroberfläche der Lisa und des…
I guess we. have garage doors. in Soul Society now.
The thing is, I suppose, when you are 1000 years old, you see this and you're like 'wow that's so futuristic and cool I bet we could make a really sweet entrance with one of those babies."
a musical machine! this animal's programmable, the notes are on the screen (nice)!
[ID: An art piece of an Apple IIe computer, which has a rectangular shaped screen and a keyboard that slopes downward. It is colored in shades of light beige and brown and rests on a black background. On the computer's screen is a drawing of an early pixelated first-person shooter in bright cyan. An electrical cord that has been outlined in orange and brown extends from the computer. The cord has several breaks in it, all of which have bright cyan lightning bolts flying from them. The computer itself casts a bright purple shadow and has two explosion-shaped bursts of neon pink, red, and white on its upper right and bottom left corners. Several blue floppy disks float behind the computer's upper left side and a neon yellow mouse cursor floats on its right side. Above the computer are the words "First - Person Shooter!" written in neon green (these are lyrics from the given song). All of the letters "o" in the phrase have been made to look like targets. End ID]
Clock Signal 2024-05-27 - A latency-hating emulator of: the Acorn Electron and Archimedes, Amstrad CPC, Apple II/II+/IIe and early Macintosh, Atari 2600 and ST, ColecoVision, Enterprise 64/128, Commodore Vic-20 and Amiga, MSX 1/2, Oric 1/Atmos, early PC compatibles, Sega Master System, Sinclair ZX80/81 and ZX Spectrum
Got a new 74LS125AN for the Disk ][. Exercised the drive mech, adjusted the speed to exactly 299rpm using MECC Computer Inspector and, voilà, I now have an Apple //e with a working Disk ][!
(Picture is the new chip inserted into the board)
I didn't even test any other portion of the drive. I've watched enough Adrian's Digital Basement where I just now assume 74LS = bad. Turns out, that's exactly what was wrong.
I then spent the best part of four hours messing around in BASIC, specifically from this book.