Documenting my retro computing one project at a time
It all started with me wanting to use a vintage computer without all the modern distractions to blog about vintage computers. My ideal device was something I could sit on the couch with and type away. A bonus would be an easy…
1 CommentI started work at Apple Australia in January 1996 as an Education Sales Manager selling Macs to K-12 schools and universities. On my first day we got a briefing on a new product that would be launched the following month that was…
Leave a CommentThe final step in a month long conquest was to get the IIe Card to boot from the AppleShare server. In its standard configuration it turned out pretty simple. However it did take a while to work out on two fronts. The…
Leave a CommentI only had two steps left to complete my challenge, getting the IIe Card seeing the server and getting the IIe Card to boot from it. The end was in sight and it seem like a very simple thing to get the…
Leave a CommentNow I had the IIe card working, it was time to tackle the server. I was going to cheat a little and just connect to my A2SERVER running on my Raspberry Pi but I felt that wasn’t in the spirit of my…
Leave a CommentI thought this was going to be a lot easier than it was. My very first Mac back in the day was a Macintosh LC with IIe Card (as I was upgrading from a IIgs) so I was familiar with how it…
1 CommentI finally got around to having a think about the project and I came up with the following requirements- Hardware required Apple IIe Card 68K Mac that the card works in SE/30 for AppleShare server 2x LocalTalk connectors Software required System 7.1…
Leave a CommentThis is the log for my RetroChallenge 2022 entry via affiliation with The Australian Computer Museum Society. You can follow my progress on forums.acms.org.au. THE ENTRY I will be attempting to boot an Apple IIe from an AppleShare file server. The twist…
Leave a CommentThe Apple Card Apple had two versions of the Language card that I know of. Apart from the silkscreening and part numbers (820-0015-01 and 820-0015-02) they seem to function identically. They both have the provision for a modification that almost sent me…
1 CommentI couldn’t work out why the demo was crashing at the 3 min mark and it bugged me. It turns out the demo is simply a bunch of BASIC programs strung together. It was crashing at a corrupt file. I re-imaged the…
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