New round of Apple IIe attempts
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Long story short: I read somewhere that if something does not work on
the Apple computer then it is always recommended to get a new one. I am
an Apple user so I followed the recommendation. And it worked.
Now I will be a bit more serious. I got (an European/Italian version)
of the Apple IIe computer. AS I wrote here it has some issues. The main
one was faulty keyboard. I replaced the keyboard chip, re-seated things
and so on but nothing helped. I have been planning to try resolder the
keyboard contacts but it is a long-term task because I'm not good in
soldering.
Once I saw a relatively cheap Apple IIe (clean, tested, blah blah) in
the U.S.. With all shipping costs and custom taxes it was even more
expensive than my older IIe which was shipped just from Milan. It has
(of course)an American 110V power supply which is not ideal here. But I
already have had the adapter (it was used with my CD player). This
computer has an old disk controller card (the cable is incompatible
with newer ones and seems not to be detachable at all) so I have had to
pull the newer dual disk card from the European machine and to use it
here. I put everything together, turned the device on and ...
..it started to work! Keyboard seems to be OK, cards are recognised
and so on. So I add all desired stuff: a 5.25" floppy drive, a SD
floppy emulator card the ROM card and the Uthernet II card.
Now I have to learn how to put software on the SD to be able to use the
Uthernet for further work. Unfortunately I have no free 5.25" diskettes
and no second 5.25" drive for any other computer so floppies are not
the right way...
I will see during Chrismas what I will able to do with this device...
P.S. I'm sorry that there are no POWER-related or SGI-related posts.
Actually, I still use both but there is nothing new: everything just
works.