Documenting my retro computing one project at a time
The IIc holds a special place in my heart as the first computer I ever bought new having previously owned a secondhand Apple II EuroPlus. This computer along with AppleWorks saw me through four years of university churning out endless essays and…
Leave a CommentWAS THE STAR NL-10 PRINTER REALLY IMAGEWRITER II COMPATIBLE? My first experience with the word “compatible” came in the form of a Star NL-10 printer advertised as “ImageWriter II compatible”. It was a unique printer as it came with either a parallel…
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 decided a while ago that if I am going to write about retro computers I probably should use a retro computer to do it. I decided on my weapon of choice, my trusty old Apple IIc Memory Expansion model with 1MB…
Leave a Comment