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rubber_jonnie wrote: Sat Sep 11, 2021 11:31 am
PhilC wrote: Sat Sep 11, 2021 10:02 am @rubber_jonnie thanks, it's still interesting to find out what it was, even if it's no longer required.
Link is here if you're interested: https://www.applefritter.com/content/st ... pple-e-mod
Cool, thanks. Just spotted an enhanced //e on ebay in Coventry but must resist the urge to press make an offer :lol:
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PhilC wrote: Sat Sep 11, 2021 11:48 am Cool, thanks. Just spotted an enhanced //e on ebay in Coventry but must resist the urge to press make an offer :lol:
Yikes! Much as I'd love an early Apple (or even any pre-intel Apple Mac) that's way out of my price range! I'll stick to the comparatively cheap ones I can afford & add the 6502-based Apples to the "if I ever win the lottery" list (along with a Jupiter Ace, Dragon 64 etc.) - in fact, that gives me an idea for a new topic of the machines people want but can't afford...

Anyway, off to the garage to sort more of my retro gear boxes & store them on the new shelves...and make room for the new ST and BBC Master

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@JezC oh I agree, I certainly wouldn't pay the £320 that some are listed at. I paid considerably less for mine and the one I spotted today offered a cheeky amount but you never know.

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@PhilC Good luck with the cheeky offer .
Great re the Master, let me know when posted & I'll drop you a message when it arrives.
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Today I have been mostly upgrading my Luggable to MS-Dos V5.

It did have Dos 3.3 on it but trying to format a 4GB CF card to 32mb partitions is sole destroying :lol:
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Slowly getting used to this Apple II stuff.

Today I burnt myself two lots of enhanced roms for the IIe, why two lots? well, I used 27128 chips instead of 2764s cos I didn't have any but first time round I forgot to copy the image into the high and low banks of the eprom so they didn't work. Not too much of a problem as I had spares and can soon erase the other ones with my cheap Chinese UV eraser.

So apart from an "Enhanced" sticker over the power light, my Apple IIe or //e as it now shows on the screen has three new eproms and a 65C02P3 CPU fitted.

Now all I've got to do is find some stuff to boot and test it out.
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And just call me Mr dish washer fixer. Our 20 year old dish washer had failed, the circulation pump wasn't working. So I thought what the hell, it ain't working anyway, so let's have a look at it.

Turns out reflowing the cpu on the control board has only gone and fixed it. I mean, who puts a cpu in a 20 year old fish washer FFS.

still, thats saved me £350, well, as long as the kitchen floor doesn't suddenly flood or the lights go out that is. :lol:
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Darn I'm impressed, what a awesome fix for a quality old fish washer :D

Edited by PhilC : fixed your dodgy smiley Steve :lol:
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Steve wrote: Tue Sep 21, 2021 8:32 pm Darn I'm impressed, what a awesome fix for a quality old fish washer ;D
Yeah yeah, i never said I could spell or type :lol:
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Nice fix, at least your dishwasher had the decency to just break down, ours tried to go to hell in a fiery ball of molten heating element!

That was in the old house, thankfully we have a brand new one in the new house, so many years to go (I hope) before the next core meltdown incident!!
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