Re: Some Questions & WTB Apple //e & Old Cracking Memories !

[marvinisnot@home.com (Marvin Miller)]

Thanks for all your answers - they were very helpful !!

Best;
Marvin

On Fri, 20 Oct 2000 22:58:11 -0700, Jeff Jungblut
<jeff@nospam.soapzone.com> wrote:

>In article <39f0d695.59213614@news>, marvinisnot@home.com (Marvin 
>Miller) wrote:
>
>> I would like to buy an immaculate, late model Apple //e. I've been
>> looking on ebay and see that they are really, really cheap (good
>> news!)
>> 
>> [1] How do I ascertain that I am buying the latest possible //e?
>
>The latest was the platinum model with the built-in numeric keypad.  
>Before that model, there was the Enhanced IIe, which looks like the 
>original IIe (beige) except the keycaps have black lettering in an 
>attractive typeface; the original IIe had white keycaps in an ugly 
>typeface.  The Enhanced and platinum models are 128K and have the 
>mousetext character set.  
>
>> [2] Are all the latest ones platinum?
>
>AFAIK there was only one platinum model, the last.
>
>> [3] I would like a duo drive & color monitor. Do they come in the
>> platinum color as well?
>
>No, just beige for the DuoDisk.  I think I remember seeing a sort of 
>platinum colored Apple Composite Color monitor but the most common 
>monitors for the IIe were the Monitor II greenscreen and the Monitor /// 
>greenscreen, both of them beige. The /// was the ugly one with the 
>antiglare netting over the screen.
>
>> [4] Did Apple themselves make a 1 meg memory card w/the full 1 meg?
>
>Yes, though I don't remember what it was called, it was RamFactor 
>compatible and commonly called a slinky card.  It plugged into a regular 
>slot, not the aux slot.
>
>> [5] Does anyone remember the Mockingboard? What's the best audio card
>> for compatibility and quality?
>
>I never used sound cards on IIs except for an Echo speech synthesizer 
>about 17 years ago.
>
>> [6] Can you run a CD player or 3.5" floppy off of an Apple iie?
>
>You can use the offwhite-colored UniDisk 3.5" drives with a UniDisk 
>controller card.  I think the cards are labeled "Apple I/O Controller" 
>on the board and sold as such on eBay.  Platinum-colored IIGS 3.5 drives 
>can't be used with the IIe unless you have some hard-to-find third-party 
>controller I've only read about, if they work at all.  You're SOL on CD 
>drives for the IIe.
>
>> [7] There MUST be a place where you can d/l old warez!! When I was in
>> school the coolest people were the ones with the most warez!!
>
>ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/images/
>
>> [8] I remember a Hong Kong student who had an intersting device. It
>> was a controller card with a digital display that showed what track
>> and sector the floppy drive was on at all times. VERY useful in
>> cracking warez! (remember cracking warez and catalogs moved to track
>> 23 etc hehehe...) Anyway, Does anyone have a WildCard or even better
>> the card with the digital display for track/sector?
>
>I knew people with WildCards but not the floppy controller display 
>you're talking about.  Yeah, I remember the simplest DOS 3.3 copy 
>protection trick--
>
>]new
>]poke 44033, 34: rem change catalog track
>]init hello
>
>But that's all I remember!
>
>> [9] What about Copy ][+ and all those GREAT apps?
>
>ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/images/utility/disk_utils/
>
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>Jeff Jungblut (remove "nospam." to reply)
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