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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.

I had my G4 Digital Audio out and decided to do some benchmarking. It has a processor upgrade, a Sonnet dual 1.8ghz G4. On the built-in ATA using an adapter with a SSD I was getting 60 MB/S reads The ATA66 didn’t do quite as good but close enough that I’d never notice With the same setup on...

The SATA card came with the SD adapter. I don’t know the brand. More likely it was just a slow SD card. I have a number of extra small SSDs so I likely won't use it again. What I found confusing was that I got better speed from the ATA cards than the SATA card. All using the same SSD. I also...

I’m a little confused I hauled an 8600 with a 450mhz G3 card out of my storage locker. It had a Sonnet SATA card connected to a SD card adapter. This setup was a little faster than the built-in SCSI but not a lot. So I connected the SATA card to a real SSD. With MacBench it showed as being 4...