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Offline daryl66

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« on: October 14, 2006, 06:47:24 PM »
Anyone following my attempt to get an Apple IIe up and running so to convert some files will find the following "interesting" to say the least.

After countless hours of surfing/emailing  to usergroups, forums, websites, museum's and anything else I can think of the score remains: Apple IIe winning by a shutout so far.  

I wrote a letter to Cupertino attn: Steve Jobs, pleading for help.  Lo and behold I got a telphone call from his office yesterday.  Surprised probably is not strong enough.  The BAD news is they could not help. He said that the technology is over 30 years old and even "Steve could not remember how the things worked"  Ohh well win some, loose some. I did not get the name of the individual  who called but just the fact that there was a personal response gives me hope that someone up there is paying attention.

I am confident there somewhere out there is someone who does "remember" how they work.  I will keep searching.

Everyone have a great weekend

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« Reply #1 on: October 14, 2006, 08:38:33 PM »
Wow! You must feel special. yes.gif

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« Reply #2 on: October 14, 2006, 10:14:45 PM »
i got a personal call from his office too
except they basically said "you're screwed because your ipod was damaged by a non-apple product"
WHEN THEY SOLD ME THE CASE IN THE APPLE STORE!
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« Reply #3 on: October 15, 2006, 05:22:18 AM »
Hey Gailwin; did you end up with any of those Apple IIe boards in your collection?  They mostly were found in the small flat LC and Quadra case MAC's!  If Daryl66 had one he could hook up the Apple IIe floppy drive and convert till the cows came home!
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« Reply #4 on: October 16, 2006, 06:50:18 PM »
is it a 3.5" drive or 5.25" floppy drive?
i have an LC575

i'm about to get rid of a PowerMac 5260/120 that's just taking up space
would that be any use to you D?

exactly what kinds of files do you need converted?

the IIe's are floating around eBay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/VINTAGE-APPLE-IIE-PERS...1QQcmdZViewItem
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« Reply #5 on: October 17, 2006, 12:45:06 PM »
QUOTE(gailwin @ Oct 16 2006, 06:50 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
is it a 3.5" drive or 5.25" floppy drive?

i'm about to get rid of a PowerMac 5260/120 that's just taking up space
would that be any use to you D?

exactly what kinds of files do you need converted?
W0QQitemZ120040942219QQihZ002QQcategoryZ80075QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem]http://cgi.ebay.com/VINTAGE-APPLE-IIE-PERS...1QQcmdZViewItem[/url]

Parker:   I just saw your post this morning. The files I am attempting to access were written by "Appleworks" on 5.25 inch floppies on the IIe that I have. Where I am at the moment is "I don't know for sure what I need". I cannot get the machine to recognize the "program". It starts up fine but stops dead when I insert the "program" disk and hit return as per the prompt. I do not think the problem is hardware.  I just located a complete set of "Claris Appleworks, disks and documentation" on Ebay and have a bid in on it. Closes in 5 more days.  Hopefully the documentation will get me over the hump.  I think once I get the files opened up I will be able to determine what  "I need". Till then all I can do is "Hang in Thar"

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« Reply #6 on: October 17, 2006, 12:57:36 PM »
I'm sorry if I was less than clear.  What I'm talking about is a Apple II emulation board that plugged into the Processor Direct Slot on MAC LC's and Quadra's!  This is some notes about it:

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Related FAQs Resources: R028LCA2CARD.TXT (text file)

For more information, see FAQs resource file R028LCA2CARD.TXT. --Dan DeMaggio, David Empson, Owen Aaland, Edward Floden, Liam Busey, Phil Bee014- What is an Apple II: The Apple IIe Emulation Card

     This is a '//e on a card' plug-in which lets you run Apple II software. The card fits into Mac LC and some subsequent machines that have the LC Processor Direct Slot (PDS) and which support 24-bit memory addressing.

     Many of these cards are sold today without documentation. In case you've just plugged one into your Mac Color Classic, etc., it will help to know that pressing Command-Control-Escape gets you to the Preferences panel.

     The Apple IIe Emulation Card is actually more like a //c because the card is not an expandable machine like a //e. There is a place on the back of the card to plug in a Y-cable to which you can attach a Unidisk 3.5" disk drive (white, A2M2053) and/or an Apple 5.25" disk drive (platinum, A9M0107) and a joystick.

     Because the graphics are handled by the Mac, animation may be slow if you don't have a decent Mac.


This is an eBay page that is selling this:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Rare-Apple-IIe-Card-fo...810562350QQrdZ1

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« Reply #7 on: October 17, 2006, 01:41:07 PM »
QUOTE(gunug @ Oct 17 2006, 12:57 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
What I'm talking about is a Apple II emulation


GN:  

OK  I see where you are going with this now. Think I would like to hold that option in reserve until I exhaust the world in my attempt get to these files on the existing IIe hardware. IF and that seems to be a big IF, I can finally get to them I think I have found a do-able solution to get them to a cd with what  stuff I have around the house.

Thanks for keeping up with my efforts. Don"t give up the ship.

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« Reply #8 on: October 17, 2006, 02:58:03 PM »
Daryl - I was just trying to clarify for Gailwin what I was talking about.  I talked to the lady at the Catholic school that I know and she wasn't able to add anything that I didn't already bring up; and she didn't have any old Apple stuff left.
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