Re: A Few Apple II questions...

[Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.bc.ca>]

1. The numeric keypad was meant for the beige IIe,  the platinum IIe wasn't
even in production when it came out. However it will work on any IIe, even
the platinum IIe but there were probably very few people that wanted 2
numeric keypads on their IIe

2  The easiest way to find the UniDisk 3.5 driver is, assuming you're
running system 6.0.1 then boot the installer, click on customize. After
that scroll down to Driver:UniDisk 3.5 and install,  it'll tell you which
disk  you need.
Without the driver you should at least see the light flicker a couple times
unless the drives aren't hooked up in the correct sequence. From the
smartport it should be 3.5 AppleDisks, 3.5 UniDisks, 5.25 drives.

3. From Apple there was the Color 100 RGB and when the IIgs came
out, the AppleColor RGB.
A number of manufacturers made RGB cards to use one or the other of
these monitors. Cards were also made to utilize EGA, CGA, VGA, and SVGA
monitors.
Unfortunately the DB15 connector on the IIc wasn't made to hook directly
to anything except the LCD display. For RGB output you need an
uncommon external adapter box. It's a pity they didn't make that an RGB port.



Labelas Enoreth wrote:

>
> 1> I have a Numeric Pad IIe. I originally thought this was for the mac
> plus because of the way it looked, but then saw the D(...um...B?...I know
> there's a big thing here about DB, DD, DE, etc...) connector on the cable.
> Then I went and looked at my IIe's...the two platinums have the num pad
> built-in already and the older beige one only has the internal connector.
> So, which IIe was this supposed to hook up to?
>
> 2> The UniDisk 3.5 doesn't seem to work. I don't actually have the UniDisk
> 3.5 driver installed (mainly because I can't find it on my system disks,
> or anywhere, but then I was sort of cursory in my investigation) for
> GS/OS, but shouldn't the drive at least poll at startup? When I start up
> the computer it polls the drives like <HDSC20, 5.25, <skip UD3.5>, Apple
> 3.5>...and each of them shows some sort of activity even if there is no
> media in the drive. (And I've tried with disks in and not in the UD). It
> inserts and ejects disks fine, just no flashing of the light or spinning
> the motor or anything. Bad UniDisk, or is this normal behavior?
>
> 2> Was there and apple-made RGB monitor for use with the IIe (with a RGB
> card of course)...does the AppleColor RGB (used with my IIgs) monitor work
> with the IIc?
>
> Thanks...