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While deciding what to bring to I retro computer meet I came across my IIci. It booted up nicely but I noticed something was off. The time wasn’t correct but it also wasn’t the default. After a bit of disassembly I found it still had the original battery. Still putting out 2.6v. I guess I missed...

I have a BlueSCSI and a ZuluSCSI that I’ve used with an Apple Rev C SCSI card. I had problems with the BlueSCSI card and the Rev C. Sometimes it’d boot, sometimes nothing would happen. The ZuluSCSI worked well all the time with the Rev C, Hi-speed and Ramfast SCSI cards.

The PC Transporter should work in any slot that's set to Your Card except 3. Which slot are you installing it in? Do other cards work in that slot?

I don’t have aftermarket processors for the MDDs but I do for quicksilvers and DAs. I really noticed the difference a larger cache made with those. To use the 1.42 effectively you either need to change the motherboard or do some resistor changing or it’ll run at 1.1ghz in a 133 bus. Haven't...

I was looking through some stuff and found another adapter. No name on it but looks like a more compact iMate and this one worked

One is from tinkerboy, the other I bought off ebay which still has them https://www.tinkerboy.xyz/product/tinkerboy-usb-mouse-to-mac-converter-adapter-for-macintosh-with-db9-mouse-port/ https://www.ebay.ca/itm/126965649542? I’m reminded that I do have a Wombat bi-directional ADB to USB...

They make adapters that let you use a USB mouse with the Apple II mouse card or a Mac that uses 9 pin mice. The iMate adapter was made to let you use an ADB mouse or keyboard on a USB Mac. The idea was to have the USB adapter on the mouse card and then connect the iMate to it to use an ADB mouse...

I haven’t done much with the Apple II this spring and was looking for something to try. I was thinking that one of the rectangular ADB mice would look interesting on a II+. I have a couple of different USB adapters for the mouse card and I also have a couple of adapters for ADB to USB. The only...

Last night while looking in a box I saw the bag of mice I keep handy and decided to clean the rollers. Some I’d done before but a fair number I hadn’t. All went all except a couple of Japanese M0100. The gunk really stuck to the steel rollers. I scraped the thick stuff off but I’m not the...

There is the Xprofile which works well but is pricey

I used to use a splitter on a couple of macs around 1995. when I bought mine the salesman told me that they only sold 7 or 8 a year and that was the largest dealership in the area

The Apple II SCSI cards don’t supply term power out of the box but are easily modified to provide it using a 1N914 diode. You can find the details in the Apple II FAQ

I think that the limitations of the Sawtooth might be too much for higher resolution Video. If I were going to try, I’d look for a faster CPU and maybe a SSD first. The SSD could be done with either a SATA drive with ide adapter or a CF card with ide adapter. A better choice if you want to run a...

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.

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

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...

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

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

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.

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...