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Fixing/upgrading old Apple //e



	Just a week or two ago, my friend came across a fully intact 
Apple //e with Duo-Disk 5.25, ProFile HD, and various interface cards -- out
in a trash pile! Anyways, after purposely destroying the 5meg ProFile HD<g>, he
kindly donated what was left to me (it was either that or let him rip that
apart too ;). I just brought it home tonight, took it all apart, cleaned
off masses of gunk and dirt, and now have a fully working Apple //e...well
almost... 

	The keyboard is missing five key-caps and the plastic underneath is 
either damaged or broken off completely. On top of that, one the key to the
left of <RETURN> ("') got jammed in and is being continously pressed
down activating auto-repeat. This causes whatever other key pressed to be
repeated non-stop, thus making keyboard control virtually useless... :/

	I managed to get Double-Hi-Res displays working (it's an 820-0064-B)
by adding a jumper-block to the extended 80-columns card, but I'd still like 
to upgrade this to an enhanced //e. Which brings me to a question -- Where can I
find a 65C02 and the three system ROM chips? Actually, before I worry about 
that, it seems I need a new keyboard with at least five (baige-colored) keycaps
that I'm missing. Is there a place I can get all this dirt cheap, or
perhaps someone out there has a spare //e keyboard and chips they'd be
willing to part with? :)

	...And finally, can someone give me details on these cards I
found inside?   
		- "Buffer Printer Card" from Velcom (has sockets for
                   up to 64k of RAM and a 26-pin connector. -currently has 16k)
	        - "Wizard BPO" from Wesper MicroSystems. (How does this
		   differ from my Wizard IPI card?)
	        - "Apple II Interface" (ROM 341-0271-A) w/ 25-pin connector.
                  (Looks like an old SASI interface from the ProFile HD, though 
                  can it be used for anything else?)

Mitchell Spector
sb_spec@pavo.concordia.ca