waynestewart
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I do like upgraded computers like the Mac II with 50mhz 030. Most of the Macs I have, have a processor upgrade. I'm also especially fond of my Apple II stuff.
There are a couple of computer projects that are a bit special to me likely because they caused me to do a bit of thinking.
Years back I thought that I didn't use a IIe as often as I would because of the time it took to setup and take down so I decided to put a IIe motherboard in a PC tower. I did so along with two half height 5.25" floppy drives. Took a 3.5" superdrive out of it's case and installed that. Used a SCSI hard drive and CD-ROM with custom cable so I could add external drives if needed. Wired in two extra slots in parallel with an existing slot for extra non slot specific cards. For a keyboard I totally rewired a IIgs keyboard using a cable with a DB25 connector. After using the keyboard for a bit it irked me that the keyboards clear key didn't do anything because of course there's no such key on a IIe so I wired it in and modified the IIe keyboard ROM so that it now functioned the same way the clear key does on the IIgs.
The other is a Color Classic with a 6500 motherboard. I did have plans to install a motherboard from a tray loading iMac but that was on hold for a few years for health and financial reasons. I'm still considering it but possibly with a Cube motherboard. I acquired one with a badly damaged case and no power supply.\
There are a couple of computer projects that are a bit special to me likely because they caused me to do a bit of thinking.
Years back I thought that I didn't use a IIe as often as I would because of the time it took to setup and take down so I decided to put a IIe motherboard in a PC tower. I did so along with two half height 5.25" floppy drives. Took a 3.5" superdrive out of it's case and installed that. Used a SCSI hard drive and CD-ROM with custom cable so I could add external drives if needed. Wired in two extra slots in parallel with an existing slot for extra non slot specific cards. For a keyboard I totally rewired a IIgs keyboard using a cable with a DB25 connector. After using the keyboard for a bit it irked me that the keyboards clear key didn't do anything because of course there's no such key on a IIe so I wired it in and modified the IIe keyboard ROM so that it now functioned the same way the clear key does on the IIgs.
The other is a Color Classic with a 6500 motherboard. I did have plans to install a motherboard from a tray loading iMac but that was on hold for a few years for health and financial reasons. I'm still considering it but possibly with a Cube motherboard. I acquired one with a badly damaged case and no power supply.\
