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  1. SteveHere

    JoyStick recomendations for Apple IIs?

    Kraft KC3s are my "Go To" choice. A couple of things to watch for. There are models that are Apple II / IBM Switchable, when you look on eBay people don't always know what they have, so make sure to look carefully at the pictures (the switchable ones have two plugs on the end of the cord and a...
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    Best IDE to SSD?

    Here's what I've done w/ my 3400c. I've used this CF to IDE 2.5" adapter with a single 2 GB CF card. This works well, but I installed this over a year ago before I learned about @Action Retro suggestion to use these M.2 Sata SSD to 2.5' IDE adapters to with low-cost M.2 Sata drives. I believe...
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    Apple II Plus - Vintage Monitor or Color TV?

    For other "newbies" to this era of hardware that may see this post in the future, I've done some research on this and purchased a Sony PVM Monitor. I think it fills the bill nicely as a "Standard Monitor" that could have been in a school and also with Color. The first Sony Trinitron TVs...
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    Unknown "Schlumberger" expansion card - any ideas what it is?

    Interesting card. I know Schlumberger as a company involved in the Oil and Gas industry, but I guess they were involved in Test and Measurement, too. Thanks for posting!
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    Flash SIL3112 SATA Controller Card for Mac

    I became aware that this was possible from one of Sean's @Action Retro videos. I went back and watched Greg @ Hrutkay mod's video, too, and back to this old forum post. Like so many forum posts, this one seems to contain a dead link. I've tried patching the files together from various sources...
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    The perfect "Bridge" Mac

    Beige G3s are a good choice for a bridge machine, but the answer to the question depends partly on how far back you want to bridge. I've found this article "Working with Macintosh Floppy Disks in the New Millennium" super informative. Based on this article I decided to use the previous...
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    Apple II Plus - Vintage Monitor or Color TV?

    I have a question for the community. As background, I'm the fortunate owner of a "Barn Find" Bell and Howell Apple II Plus machine. Details here and here. While this machine isn't pristine by any stretch of the imagination, I would like to have it set up similar to how it would have been used...
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    Compaq luggable

    Good luck with your Compaq Portable I. I'm a big fan of that machine, having fixed one up myself. There's lots of great information about that machine available online, if you want to read the highlights of my restoration, check out this article on my bLog. The 8-Bit guys video series on...