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    Apple IIe Resistor

    From Understanding the Apple IIe A self-test LED is connected across the speaker jack in the Apple Ile to give a firmware diagnostic pass indication when the motherboard is powered up with no keyboard or speaker connected.
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    small ide HD

    I’ve used headers like that and some wire to make an adapter like that but not for a drive that mounts on a card. The IDE DOM with the gender changer adapter is likely going to be as long or longer than a 2.5” SSD and I have those on hand
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    small ide HD

    I’ve used 2.5” ide drives and CF adapters, which work quite well. Those IDE DOM aren’t too practical as the ide device has to fit on the end of the card so the connector needs to be inline. Also the card has a female connector so the ide device needs a male connector. I looked up the Kittyhawk...
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    small ide HD

    Thanks, I think finding a Kittyhawk may be a little difficult but I'll keep an eye out now that I know what to look for
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    small ide HD

    I’ve seen pics of these small hard drives on focus cards a few times. I’m interested in finding out which hard drive it is but I’ve had no luck searching
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    A silly guy want to hook up his //c monitor to his Mac mini but failed

    There are HDMI to RCA converters out there. They're meant to do things like take the signal from a Blu-ray player to a CRT TV. I saw one in action a couple of years ago but didn't note the brand.
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    PowerMac G4!

    I’ve always liked the MDD. I bought one new in 2002. Right now I’m using a 1.42ghz MDD. I still have the hard drives in it but they’re disconnected and I’m booting off a CF card, it’s faster than the original hard drives. I have it connected to the second HDMI connector on a 32” LG 4k monitor...
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    Apple II Mystery (to me) Card

    I'm guessing some kind of networking card from a school. Finding the card in slot 3 may be misleading. People pull out cards and put them back in the wrong slot. On ebay I've see Disk II cards in slot 3.
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    Anyone Recognize This Apple Disk II drive? (Prototype or what?)

    It’s a clone By 1983 Apple had switched to Alps drives If the Apple engineers had wanted to play around with a drive, they wouldn’t have had a case custom made, they would have used one they had on hand. Apples profit margin was so high that anyone could easily undercut them.
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    Apple IIGS start up failure

    Try the self test The self-test is activated by pressing Open-Apple and Option on power up
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    QC-10/20 HD utilities

    I’m looking for the Apple II Utilities disk for the Quark Peripherals QC-10/20 hard drive. Hoping someone here either has it or might know where to find it.
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    Problem with Mercury Electra SSD in beige MiniTower G3?

    There's also SCSI2SD and ZuluSCSI which are hugely less costly
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    Setting up a PC Trasporter on a IIGS

    Doesn't the superdrive card work with the PC Transporter?
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    Solid drive light on Unidisk 5 1/4 drive, not able to read disks.

    An Apple IIe 5.25” drive will run forever with no disk inserted.
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    Solid drive light on Unidisk 5 1/4 drive, not able to read disks.

    Try it with just one drive connected. If it doesn’t work then try it with just the other drive connected
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    apple floppy drives curiousity..

    The drive mechanism is the same. The drive electronics are similar but not quite the same. Likewise Apple III SOS is similiar to ProDOS but not usable on the other system.
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    3.5" external floppy manual eject button not working

    Some time ago I had one connected to an Apple II UDC card which didn't allow the eject button to work. Using a paper clip got old really fast. So I unplugged the eject button wire from the circuit board and connected it to a couple of thin wires, One wire went to power and the other to the eject...
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    CC powerup

    The Color Classic analog board is pretty easy to remove. Unplug 6 connectors and it slides out. The online guides suggest replacing just 13 caps but there are almost 50 and I’d prefer replacing all of them. I thought about waiting until I had all the caps but I realized that I just don’t have...
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    CC powerup

    One of my Color Classics had some powerup issues. Tried a different Logic board but that wasn’t it so I decided to recap the analog board. I didn’t have all the parts but decided to replace what I had while waiting for the rest to arrive. Since there were a number of the same caps used I...
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    Migrating memory chips from 5400 board to 5500 board?

    I recall reading about someone doing that maybe a dozen years ago. They reported success
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