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Colin McMillen

You know how bank robbers squeeze a few precious seconds by yelling "DRIVE!" to the getaway driver *before* they're in the car?
Turns out, if an #AppleII program yells "start the motor!" to the floppy drive just a bit before running out of buffer and needing to refill it, that program will finish... 7 seconds faster!

New decoding time on my reference JPEG is now 159 seconds.

#Quicktake#RetroComputing
Richard Troupe

I got an Apple II quite a while ago and managed to clean it up and get it working again, however... The keyboard wasn't working.

Well, I purchased a new keyboard cable and encoder chip to fix the issue, and it turns out that it was just the cable that was the problem!

As for software, I REALLY want to get an XDrive for it from Mac Effects but they appear to be sold out.

Are there any other sellers of the XDrive for an Apple II?

#retrocomputing#apple#appleii
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Blake Patterson

@kirk It is real! This is my //c setup in my office two jobs ago (~10 years ago), The //c is "dialed" in to a MacBook Pro in the shot, and the LEGO //c is the work of Chris McVeigh -- I ordered a kit from him and assembled it.

The two matters I discuss in as many blog posts, along with a video of the LEGO assembly!

bytecellar.com/2022/11/28/conf

bytecellar.com/2013/09/01/asse

#AppleII #Apple//c #LEGO #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #blog #ByteCellar

Blake Patterson

There have a vertical linearity issue on this CRT I picked up last weekend. It's a Magnavox "Computer Monitor 80" with no model # on the case anywhere, but I believe it's a Philips BM7500-series, or so.

(See the bottom 3-4 lines of text vs the rest of the text on screen - vertically squished.)

Here is the service manual as close as could be found,

archive.org/details/PhilipsBM7

Can anyone tell from the schematic if there is a V.LIN pot on the board somewhere that I would find upon opening the unit? I'd like to get it adjusted and use it.

If it's a caps issue, I wonder how many would need to be replaced to get it back to snuff? This display was manufactured in late 1986.

#CRT#monitors#repair
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Bridge&Tunnel Jeff

INIT HELLO, a convention about the Apple II computer, was just held last weekend. I was hoping I could attend, but didn't have the time.

It also had a better COVID policy than the great majority of cons these days and based on pictures of the event, the great majority of people were masked.

Good job, fellow old nerds.

init-hello.org/covid-policy/

INIT HELLOCOVID Policy - INIT HELLOIn consideration of the accessibility of the event and the health of our attendees, INIT HELLO has the following COVID policy.
#yallMasking#COVID#masks
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