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I picked up an Applied Ingenuity Inner Drive with a bad power supply. It released the magic smoke and stopped working. Visually it looks normal. I’ve fitted Vulcans with the MVLT80-4000-EOS PS but it’s a little harder with the ID so I picked up the same model of PS though it’s a later revision...

With mine I paced a utility knife on the seam and hit it with a hammer. Seemed to work well. I only did a few but it was a major pain and I did have to crawl around the floor looking for springs.

I have all of those cards but I don’t keep a permanent set of cards in a IIe. However some cards are always installed, a Ramworks, mouse card, 5.25” interface and a hard drive interface. I haven’t used a serial card in likely 25 years. I don’t see much value in a slinky card if you have a...

Sometimes I find odd things interesting. With both trackballs out, I was noticing the AP logo on the plastic of the 9 pin connector. On the Kensington they eliminated the middle but you can still see the edge.

You can run the 3.5 Unidisk from the Liron card, Liron Reborn from A2Heaven or the Yellowstone card from BMOW. The Yellowstone lets you run a lot of different drives. And of course the SuperDrive card. There wasn’t a lot of IIe software produced on 3.5” disks but ProDOS software can be moved...

Success. I tried an O-ring that was a good fit but there wasn't enough clearance between the roller and the circuit board. Then I stretched a really tiny O-ring with a 2mm center over a tapered dowel and was able to get it on with just enough clearance.

Feels like the ball needs retrobrighting. Fortunately when Kensington acquired them, they changed the trackball colour.

The rubber roller is solid rubber, no O-ring. It does have a spring that presses the roller against the ball. It wasn't moving in either direction at first. I stretched the springs a little and one direction started working normally but not the other. I doesn't have o-rings but maybe I'll try...

I have out my Kensington and Assimilation Process (AP) trackballs. The Kensington trackball works fine but the AP trackball has a tracking issue. After a bit of cleaning tracking was good in one direction. If I move the rollers manually it works well. I swapped the roller assembly and now it’s...

If a reinstall doesn't help, a couple of other possibilities are a bad RAM stick or that the heat sink compound has dries up

The Apple Hi-speed SCSI is faster on the IIgs but with the small IIe programs it really isn’t a factor. You can have multiple HDs with either. I’ve always used 2 partitions with a IIE and 5 with the IIgs. There’s GUIs for the IIe and I occasionally use one but I always liked ProSel 8. Either...

I don't think it's write once media. The disks have write protect switches for each side. To me it looks like a version of MO. Hopefully I can find some time to do a disassembly and find the write protect switch.

I can’t find anything online except an advertising pic. In the pic it appears to be connected to what I think is an Olivetti 286. I solved one issue. I could see it on my Apple IIs but got a SCSI error trying to format but couldn’t see it on a Mac or the Mac would hang at boot up. This morning...

I picked up an Olivetti OD-810 drive with some cartridges and have been trying to get it working with something. I don’t have an install disk or software. Anyone have any knowledge of this drive? I tried with several Macs and either they can’t see it or they hang. On the Apple II the Apple...

I’m getting a slightly less on my MDD but the SSD is an old slower one. It came off an old RAID array I picked up with a bunch of hardware.