I've been toying with the idea of adding an Apple ][ Plus to my collection.
Twas the first computer I ever owned. Anyone have one they're
looking/willing to trade or sell?
Thanks!
Jay West
In a message dated 9/10/99 6:16:16 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
owad(a)applefritter.com writes:
> > I just picked up a nice Apple II gs system but I can't make it work. It
> >keeps saying "check starttup device". I've tried several disk drives and
> >five different disks that should be bootable. Can anyone tell me more
about
> >what it's looking for or what I might be doing wrong? I've never used one
> >of these so I'm not familar with it.
>
> Is the system attempting to read the disk? If not, you probably need to
> make some changes in the control panel. Access it by pressing
> Option-Control-Reset immediately after turning on the system. IIRC, the
> changes you want to make will be in the "Slots" menu, and involve which
> slots are used for boot-up.
>
> Tom Owad
>
you can access the control panel at any time. if you are using a disk ][
controller card, you have to set slot 6 for 'your card' i believe. otherwise,
you will have to change it for the onboard controller in case you are using
that to run your disk drives.
d
> I just picked up a nice Apple II gs system but I can't make it work. It
>keeps saying "check starttup device". I've tried several disk drives and
>five different disks that should be bootable. Can anyone tell me more about
>what it's looking for or what I might be doing wrong? I've never used one
>of these so I'm not familar with it.
Is the system attempting to read the disk? If not, you probably need to
make some changes in the control panel. Access it by pressing
Option-Control-Reset immediately after turning on the system. IIRC, the
changes you want to make will be in the "Slots" menu, and involve which
slots are used for boot-up.
Tom Owad
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On Sep 10, 16:44, John Honniball wrote:
> Is it true that the Exidy's ROM cartridge is housed in an
> 8-track tape case?
Yes, it is. With some crude hackery to remove internal pillars to make
room for a small board holding 4 ROMs or EPROMS (2716 or equivalent) and a
74LS chip (74LS138, from memory).
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
whilst browsing thousands of LPs at a thrift store I came across an
interesting computer related item. Its made by radio shack and it's called a
microcomputer trainer. basically ,its a rudimentary computer with one cpu
chip, a hex keypad, some LEDs and one hex LED display and speaker. the
included book shows how to load and run simple programs as well as how to do
math functions in binary and hex. It's complete and works and is probably
>from around 1982 time period. Also found an apple monitor /// so my
profile-equipped apple /// is now complete and correct.
d
Well, I finally managed to pick up one of the machines I'm after - a Spectravideo SV318, came with tape & RF converter, but I really want to connect this to a monitor - is it possible to wire it up to a CGA monitor ? If anyone has the pinouts, I'd be happy, also, where can I find a disk drive for this beastie ?
(BTW: I'm still looking in Oz for anyone who may have a spare Exidy Sorceror laying around.... and an Apple II)
// Lance Lyon
black(a)gco.apana.org.au
llyon(a)primus.com.au
lance999(a)hotmail.com
Ph: +61-3-6254-7376 //
Help!
I just had a Northstar Advantage shipped to me and because of the shoddy
packaging job, the CRT is history. The back of the tube is broken. I'm sad
and I'm pissed. I hate seeing equipment so mishandled.
Are there any compatible organ doners out there or suggestions for a
possible revival?
Thanks
- Mike: dogas(a)leading.net
>desktop. Despite the claims of Apple and the Palo Alto connection
>and the suit that wound up GEM on PCs and resulted in Windblows,
>I am unclear as to what the DI relationship was, why Atari was
>allowed to continue with it's GEM desktop, altho they stopped at
I'm confused. I had assumed that GEM was simply renamed to Viewmax which was
bundled with DR Dos. If there's differences I didn't spot them.
Hans Olminkhof
<
< I've got a factory-badged M38 SPX here...
Figures... they are about the same age with the m38 being a bit older
(comming out sooner) than the M76. there are a lot of differences between
the two.
either way both nice boxes. I have 3 VAXserver M10Es and the one lonely
M76/spx. I don't have a tube on the m76 as I use a terminal or the vt1200
on the network. My MVII has a GPX board set (all three planes) but I dont
use it. The room would never tolerate a VRmumble 19" color tube, they
are huge.
Never found out why SPX or GPX terms were used.
Allison
<I didn't know that some grpahics options were unique to specific models. I
<had realised, though, that a fair number of other things were. (:
<
<It's an m76.
Well when you consider the line of the 3100 is some 10+ years long...
I'd have guessed it was a M76, it was the only SPX I knew of.
FYI: that machine only runs VMS and a crippled NetBSD. Crippled in the
sense that there is minimal graphics support for vaxen and the SCSI
driver is PIO(SLOW!) as the DMA code is inop. Ultrix was never ported
to it as it was a mid life kicker and just sort of popped out.
VMS runs nicely on it as its a 7.8VUP machine and decwindows supports the
SPX option. Versions 5.4 through 7.2 run on it and 7.2 is avaiable
under the hobbiest license (DECUS) for free. Montagar.com has the CDrom
with VMS and a small raft of supporting software that is a must have for
the $30 they charge. I've found older sony 1x SCSI cdroms with trays work
well in the 3100s(at least in my M76 and m10E and using the CMD SCSI board
in the MVII).
Allison
Allison
