Here is a picture of a Apple color monitor 100 hooked up to an Apple ///
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color monitor for the apple ///
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Very cool. That needs a special card for that, no? The rest of the pics are great too. Thanks for sharing.
One other off-topic question. Does the Profile cable have the center pin missing on the top row of the 25 pin cable? I've been trying to revive a couple of 5MB Profiles but can't seem to low-level format them with a Zilog Z8603 (with proper ROM) and BLU on a Lisa 2/5 or 2/10 with a parallel card.
Thanks.
One other off-topic question. Does the Profile cable have the center pin missing on the top row of the 25 pin cable? I've been trying to revive a couple of 5MB Profiles but can't seem to low-level format them with a Zilog Z8603 (with proper ROM) and BLU on a Lisa 2/5 or 2/10 with a parallel card.
Thanks.
I don't think so... that comes right out the back of the ///. The IIe required an RGB card.
Then I'll feel free to butt in. ;-) Yep - mine does.
I didn't know you could LL format without formatting software on the /// (in addition to the chip)...?
They're heavy, with motorized tilt control... one of those forgotten little niceties like the 2-speed arrow keys on the ///.
Thanks for the info. Now I remember why I was looking for one for so long. I totally forgot why 
I recently bought a Apple Color Composite IIe and thought I was done because I thought I was looking for one for a IIe but I guess not. It was the Apple /// I was eyeing it for. Th ey are pretty rare.
@david__schmidt Yu can read more about BLU at http://sigmasevensystems.com/BLU I've only had it work on a Widget for me but looks like CelGen got it to, at least, format before becoming corrupt. Can't say I've had the luxury of seeing that
I recently bought a Apple Color Composite IIe and thought I was done because I thought I was looking for one for a IIe but I guess not. It was the Apple /// I was eyeing it for. Th ey are pretty rare.@david__schmidt Yu can read more about BLU at http://sigmasevensystems.com/BLU I've only had it work on a Widget for me but looks like CelGen got it to, at least, format before becoming corrupt. Can't say I've had the luxury of seeing that
you could use the monitor 100 on the //e and gs. You have to open it up and change a jumper from 16 bit ot 8 bit video.
inside the Apple color monitor 100 on the main pc bard, almost directly under the neck of
the crt, there is a slide switch labeled "16color/8color. To make the monitor work with the
11gs, set the swith to 8color position, and use the cable provided with the monitor
(svs part# 590-0194A) to connect it to the llgs. This configuration makes all colors
available.
inside the Apple color monitor 100 on the main pc bard, almost directly under the neck of
the crt, there is a slide switch labeled "16color/8color. To make the monitor work with the
11gs, set the swith to 8color position, and use the cable provided with the monitor
(svs part# 590-0194A) to connect it to the llgs. This configuration makes all colors
available.
I stand corrected. I have the Z8603 and format ROM/jumper for a 5MB Profile and a Z8613 plus format ROM/jumper for the 10MB Profile but haven't had to format my 10MB Profile. In my case three 5MB Profile drives wouldn't complete the low-level format properly with BLU. BLU did low-level format a Widget drive but it doesn't need any special chips or ROMs.
Celgen, it sounds like you need a low-level format.
I have been thinking of using the earlier version of BLU to see if that makes a difference. One of my drives was a IBM compatible Seagate ST-506 drive that I switched the boards on and this is one of the three drives I couldn't format. Unfortunately, I don't have a PC that has the proper MFM card with BIOS that will allow me to low-level format in DOS to see if the drives would work on a PC.
I'm losing hope on them but the failure in BLU is consistent. Unfortunately, I don't have a Apple /// Profile card in my Apple /// and special software to try that route.
Celgen, it sounds like you need a low-level format.
I have been thinking of using the earlier version of BLU to see if that makes a difference. One of my drives was a IBM compatible Seagate ST-506 drive that I switched the boards on and this is one of the three drives I couldn't format. Unfortunately, I don't have a PC that has the proper MFM card with BIOS that will allow me to low-level format in DOS to see if the drives would work on a PC.
I'm losing hope on them but the failure in BLU is consistent. Unfortunately, I don't have a Apple /// Profile card in my Apple /// and special software to try that route.
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