New round of Apple IIe attempts
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Long story short:  I read somewhere that if something  does not work on
the Apple computer then it is always recommended to get a new one. I am
an Apple user so I followed the recommendation. And it worked.

Now I will  be a bit more serious. I  got (an European/Italian version)
of the Apple IIe computer. AS I wrote here it has some issues. The main
one was faulty keyboard. I replaced the keyboard chip, re-seated things
and so on but nothing helped. I  have been planning to try resolder the
keyboard contacts  but it is a  long-term task because I'm  not good in
soldering.

Once I saw  a relatively cheap Apple IIe (clean,  tested, blah blah) in
the U.S..  With all shipping  costs and custom  taxes it was  even more
expensive than my  older IIe which was shipped just  from Milan. It has
(of course)an American 110V power supply which is not ideal here. But I
already have  had the  adapter (it  was used with  my CD  player). This
computer has  an old  disk controller card  (the cable  is incompatible
with newer ones and seems not to be detachable at all) so I have had to
pull the newer dual  disk card from the European machine  and to use it
here. I put everything together, turned the device on and ...

...it started  to work! Keyboard seems  to be OK, cards  are recognised
and so  on. So  I add  all desired stuff:  a 5.25"  floppy drive,  a SD
floppy emulator card the ROM card and the Uthernet II card.

Now I have to learn how to put software on the SD to be able to use the
Uthernet for further work. Unfortunately I have no free 5.25" diskettes
and no  second 5.25" drive for  any other computer so  floppies are not
the right way...

I will see during Chrismas what I will able to do with this device...


P.S. I'm  sorry that there  are no POWER-related or  SGI-related posts.
Actually, I  still use both but  there is nothing new:  everything just
works.