Ok, so I picked up an Apricot today for one whole dollar. I can't make
out any model number anywhere on the unit. All I got was the main unit.
It has a male DB-9 video connector and a female DB-9 keyboard connector.
It also has a DB-25 serial and an Amphenol parallel connector. It has a
handle that you can pull out of the case from the front, so I guess it's
somewhat portable. It has two 3.5" drives in the front. It simply says
"Apricot" between them. No keyboard or display so I can't boot it
unfortunately.
The UK guys will be able to clue me in right away I'm sure.
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Works fine. You can even run a mono/herc card in the same machine with a
color display adapter (CGA/EGA/VGA). Just use the mode command to switch
between them in DOS, forget what to use in Linux.
Type "mode mono" display switches to the mono monitor
Type "mode co80" and the display switches to 80x25 color mode on the VGA.
At 06:35 PM 7/5/98 -0500, Poesie wrote:
>this is newer, but i have several 8bit vid cards and assorted mono/cga
>etc type monitors. can i plug in one of those cards in a modernish
>system and realistically use it for a display? just need dos & linux
>term capabilities, but I'm not sure whether or not the system will like
>that, etc. any input here would be very helpful. thanks!
>
>-Eric
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I would be surprised if it doesn't have MDA or CGA card type. I haven't
seen one that doesn't. All Phoenix and Award BIOSes do for sure. I'm not
certain about custom BIOSes which are becoming very abundant these days.
>I would hope modern BIOSes would include the drivers for MDA and CGA
>cards, since they were part of the IBM BIOS. A machine that doesn't
can't
>claim to be IBM compatible IMHO. On the other hand, having found so
many
>old features are missing from modern machines, I'd not bet on it.
>
>>
>> -Eric
>>
>
>-tony
>
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Does that make the solution more complicated? There are about 20 little
capacitors, packed like mushrooms. Are you sure it can't be anything
else? BTW, if I later unplug it, the fan spins back up again. Maybe I
could just disable whatever shuts the thing down? (I'm somewhat
squeamish about spending two hours checking each and every capacitor
with a hot soldering iron - that'll _really_ dry out my capacitors :)
>Aha... 2Hz....
>
>Forget all we've said about mains filtering...
>
>Sounds like the PSU is starting up, detecting a problem, shutting down,
etc.
>Start by testing/replacing all the output-side electrolytics. They'll
be
>1000uF-4700uF (I guess), connected (electrically) close to the output
>connections, and have voltage ratings <25V.
>
>On the grounds it works OK off-load, it's unlikely to be any of the
other
>capacitors in the unit...
>
>
>-tony
>
>
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I have a small collection of 10 - 15yr old apricots, xen, xi and
various other related bits.
Can anyone help me find a home for these cute computers?
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>Do any of you folks know of any electronic recorces for teaching
>yourself how to program the c64?
You can find the text of the Commodore 64 Programmer's Refernece Guide as
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>> * Dysan 3740/2D, Double sided, Double density, format:
>> 128 bytes/26 sectors, index 1 & 2.
>Those are soft sectored. How are the holes in the jacket positioned? If
>they're symmetrical about a centre line, then it's a flippy disk. If
>they're both on the same side of the centre line, then it's a double
>sided disk that can also be used in single-sided drives - rare, and they
>confuse some DS drives.
>
Well to be more exact, looking at the disk (label side up) with the
disk access window at 6 0'clock, one index hole would be at 12:15 and
the other would be at 1:00. They are to one side of center and very
close together. So I guess these are not flippy disks.
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Sorry, 120 per minute. Sometimes I wonder if _I_ don't have dried-up
capacitors :)
>>
>> On Sat, 4 Jul 1998, Max Eskin wrote:
>>
>> > I counted with a stopwatch. It beat very fast, so it might be even
>> > higher than 120Hz, but it certainly is much higher than 60. I don't
know
>> > if they'll actually let me do this repair anyway.
>>
>> You counted 120 cycles per second with a _stopwatch_?
>
>Yes, I wondered about that. 120 per minute is understandable, but
120Hz?
>No way.
>
>>
>> ok
>> r.
>>
>>
>
>-tony
>
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Well, today I got around to testing MS-DOS disk images from the PDP-8
archive on the DECMAte III. It read the disk, said "Starting MS-DOS...",
but then said, "XPU Board Error". It then entered a configuration menu
for the DECMate (cursor, baud, etc.). What is an XPU board?
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