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I have two DISTAR LDD-103 floppy drives, and I thought it might be useful to dump the PROMs from them. These are drives for the Apple II that have direct drive servo motors and track zero sensors, so are quite nice to use. The PROM is directly connected to some of the drive inputs, so is...

I have 4 Apple M0100 mice, and only one of them is compatible with my Apple IIc. There are plenty of references online to how some are compatible, and some aren't, but nothing definitive about how to identify them, or what is different about them. So I opened my mice up, and the 3 that aren't...

I have some DaynaPORT E/LC-M cards, which is actually quite a good card for computers with an LC PDS slot. They have the DP83934 SONIC-T chipset, which is quite a good 10Mb ethernet chipset, and is compatible with the Apple Ethernet LC Card. However coax ethernet is a pain these days, and for...

I have two Farallon PN590a-TN NuBus ethernet cards that only have coax and AUI connectors, and I was curious if it would be possible to add 10base-T support by populating the empty spaces on the board. While it is easy enough to pick up cheap AUI 10base-T transceivers on eBay, they often don't...

Here is what I have done to fix an Asante MCiLC. The card I have looks like it was designed for both TP and coax, but then a version of it was made with the coax components removed. Unfortunately that version still has the media detection and switching circuitry present, which suffers from...