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Post by thurstan on Aug 7, 2006 4:58:46 GMT -5
Hi all.
Just got my new pride and joy off ebay, an Apple II Europlus with disk drive, 2 disk drive cards and a parallel adaptor card. Seems to boot up okay, but i dont have a television that lets me tune into the RF signal so cant see anything yet!
my question though is this. Opened it up and there is a wire with a connector on the end that originates from the front where the keyboard is, but it looks like it should be plugged in somewhere. Any idea what it is and where it should be plugged into?
thanks
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doug
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Post by doug on Aug 7, 2006 14:24:10 GMT -5
Hi Thurstan,
I don't know what that is, but I've posted on comp.sys.apple2 several times and there is a large and friendly community there. Guaranteed someone there will have an answer for you in short order!
Regards, Doug
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Post by thurstan on Aug 7, 2006 16:40:28 GMT -5
okay cool, will check there.
(saw a pic of the machines internals on the net and cant see this wire anywhere!)
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arb
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Post by arb on Aug 7, 2006 18:19:25 GMT -5
Can you post a picture of the wire somewhere where we can see it? I'm trying to remember what the inside of an Apple II looks like but the only wire I can recall near the front would be the upper/lower case switch under the keyboard on some models, though I think that was only on the older Apple ][, not the IIe+.
Also, you should be able to hook your IIe+ up using the composite output straight into the AV input on your TV or via a video recorder's AV input.
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Post by thurstan on Aug 8, 2006 5:52:47 GMT -5
okay will post a picture when i get home this evening.
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Post by thurstan on Aug 8, 2006 13:26:57 GMT -5
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Post by gmoon on Aug 8, 2006 15:34:53 GMT -5
Not the speaker connector, is it?
WAY small images.
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Post by thurstan on Aug 8, 2006 17:09:12 GMT -5
yes sorry bout that. thought they would be bigger from my phone! well it beeps on bootup so i presume its not the speaker!
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arb
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Post by arb on Aug 9, 2006 9:31:06 GMT -5
Can you read the label on the motherboard where the wires connect?
I just checked my Platinum IIe and it has the keyboard switch (underneath the front of the keyboard) which was used to change the character set. The only change I can remember it making was the hash symbol (#) would be replaced with the British pound symbol (£). On my motherboard, the switch connects near the front right and is labelled "SWITCH" and "J19". The switch itself is on the underneath of the front righ of the keyboard.
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Post by thurstan on Aug 9, 2006 17:23:25 GMT -5
whereabouts on the motherboard? there is an IC socket that it MIGHT fit into near the rear. The wire originates where it says "Encoder bd Apple II" just under the keyboard.
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arb
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Post by arb on Aug 10, 2006 11:35:01 GMT -5
It's very hard to tell - is there any way you can get some bigger pictures? A close up of each end of the wire, especially the part of the motherboard where the wire is connected. Is it connected by a header plug, or are the wires soldered to the board?
I am starting t think that it might be the character set switch. Is there a switch, or a small hole on the under-side of the case under the keyboard? If there is a switch there, you should be able to trace the wire from that just to rule it out.
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Post by thurstan on Aug 10, 2006 16:44:35 GMT -5
okay will grab the gf's proper digital camera and get some decent sized shots!
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Post by Robin Harbron on Aug 13, 2006 15:59:30 GMT -5
Don't mean to hijack the thread I've been looking for some decent programming docs for the Apple II and have come up with very little after a good bit of googling last night. I especially want a good memory map, and good details on programming the graphics hardware - registers, memory locations, how bitmap memory is laid out, that sort of thing.
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