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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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    Apple II in wooden box / identifying cards

    The last card is a 16k card, sometimes called a language card. It lets your Apple II use 64k of RAM
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    MDD - "No drivers for PowerMac3,6" after CPU switch

    I've been using a 820-1470A in a MDD for years. Just recently replaced it with a 1.33 from a xserve. If you unplug your hard drive do you still get the same results
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    MDD - "No drivers for PowerMac3,6" after CPU switch

    What's the part number on the processor module?
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    Any tips or suggestions for installing a fan into an Apple ///?

    How about installing one of those blower fans onto a prototyping card. If you positioned it right then it should push quite a bit of air through a slot opening. The card could power it so it’d be easily removeable.
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    Driving a 23“ DVI Cinema Display from a Powermac 8500?

    a number of people have flashed the ROM with a trimmed image. The down side is that there's no boot screen. You have a blank screen until the drivers load
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    Apple II Power Supply Woes

    Done worse. Once when setting up some equipment I plugged the power bar into itself
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    purchase 744X adapters

    I don’t know of any processor adapters but quite a few of the processor upgrades used the 7447 chip
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    Apple /// restoration

    I had some broken key switches on a couple of Apple IIIs but was able to use key switches from a damaged Mac 128 keyboard
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    Codenames for the Apple II range.

    The IIe was called Super II
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    Can anyone help me identify the key switches used in my Apple IIe, and (hopefully) find some replacements?

    I never took any photos and would have to disassemble an Apple II to get some However Mike Willegal has a number of pics on his site http://www.willegal.net/appleii/early-a2-keyboards.htm
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    Can anyone help me identify the key switches used in my Apple IIe, and (hopefully) find some replacements?

    I have a few with Datanetics switches but they are all from before the separate keyboard encoder board
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    Floppy Drive Grease

    Molykote
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