Re: A Few Apple II questions...

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labelas@hotmail.com (Labelas Enoreth) wrote:

>Ok, here's a few things I've run across in the past few days, I figured
>I'd ask them here, due to the fact that everyone is so darn helpful.
><grin> Anyway, some of these may be real 'duh' questions, but I just
>haven't had much time to investigate too deeply.
>
>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?

The earlier ones.  It'll probably work on the later ones, but who
needs two keypads?

>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?

Normal behavior.  The UniDisk 3.5 has a CPU inside, so it is in
charge of data transfer.  You won't be able to get the drive to work
without the drive and even then, it'll be much slower.

Luckily, you can (reversably) turn the UniDisk 3.5 into an Apple
3.5 drive that'll work just like any regular IIGS drive (and a drive
converted this way will even work on Macs with external disk
ports).

Here's the link to a document that tells you how to do this:

http://ground.ecn.uiowa.edu/apple2/MiscInfo/Drives/unidisk35.labotomy

Ground is currently down, but when it comes back again, you
can find out about the conversion through the above link.  It
involves swapping some cables, no big deal.

>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?

Yes and yes.

Apple made a digital RGB monitor for use with he IIe.

The AppleColor RGB can work with the IIc if you add an adapter
called the Video-7.  http://www.allelec.com/ Alltech sells (or sold)
them.  There were too versions, one for digital RGB monitors and
one for analog ones.  The AppleColor RGB is an analog RGB
monitor.