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My #AprilApples project, cleaning up this IIgs. It’s a ROM 1 machine, with an Apple Memory Expansion card, a Booti, and a #FujiNet adapter. Given how it started out rather happy with the result! #appleii

@mmphosis Happy Earth Day!

#AprilApples #AppleII

SUCCESS! Finally got the Macintosh 512Ke on #GlobalTalk ! I couldn't find a Phone Net box with a DB9 connector, and my attempts to bodge one together weren't working. Picked up a DB9 LocalTalk connector for less than $10. Now I'm ready for next year's #MARCHintosh , or #Apriltosh , or maybe #AprilApples (though I think LocalTalk only worked on the IIgs.)

I am not sure why deleting a page break in AppleWorks for the #IIgs can reliably reproduce this error message.

But, I can say that I do love that I am presented with a second option.

("OTHER button" sadly does nothing. It would be even more entertaining if it did something.)

#AprilApples #Retrocomputing #VintageApple

Argh. My Apple #IIgs just decided to give me a scare. I switched it on and it wouldn't boot from any disk (BlueSCSI or FloppyEmu), going directly to the boot menu.

The boot settings were all as I'd left them (time and date, boot slot etc.), but I opened it up to check the ROM battery anyway.

My IIgs came to me with the old lithium cell cut out, and I've replaced that with a pair of AA alkaline cells. Don't worry, they sit on the floor of the case, can't ever leak onto anything.

#AprilApples

My project last weekend was cleaning this Apple Desktop Bus Keyboard, which was rather grungy. #apple2 #aprilapples
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A thousand times slower than my Apple Watch—and finicky to use.

But at least this Apple II can run 50+ more years with no cloud service required! https://youtu.be/AVec5Db_SRo #AprilApples

46 years later, just in time for the end of #AprilApples, I gave my Dad his first computer—and Apple ][ he and his brother bought in 1979: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVec5Db_SRo

Packaged has arrived - it's an A2 Vidga VGA card for the Apple II by @MuseumJoe.

Looking forward to testing it out!

https://jcm-1.com/product/a2-vidga-apple-ii-vga-adapter/

#AppleII #AppleApril #AprilApples #retroComputing

Let's try using #HyperCard on an Apple IIGS for #AprilApples
Wednesday, April 9 @ 9pm EDT.

https://youtube.com/live/WMYTot7XS0k?feature=share

Made it home after #VCFEast2025 to find the new issue of Juiced.GS in the mailbox. 🙂

#VintageApple #RetroComputing #VintageComputing #AprilApples #Appril2

Hoping to get into some #AprilApples fun with my Dad. I have the first computer he ever used (he bought it with his younger brother in 1979, and his brother's had it all these years until he sadly passed away last year). It's an original Apple ][, and I found out it still has the receipt, warranty papers, manuals, and full set of cassettes with software!

Welcome to #AprilApples! Apple II Computer event celebrated in the month of April

Last year, #Appril][ got rebranded into #AprilApples, so I wish you a happy retro-month filled with April Apples! [Wayback/Archive] Welcome to #AprilApples! Apple II Computer event celebrated in the month of April Consider using the [Wayback/Archive] #AprilApples Style Guide with logon on the right, plus Garamond and/or Motter Tektura typeface when possible to really give tribute to the…

http://wiert.me/2025/04/01/welcome-to-aprilapples-apple-ii-computer-event-celebrated-in-the-month-of-april/

For Saturday's noon eastern live stream, we're going to finish restoring an Apple IIplus for #aprilapples and work on an ultra disgusting Power Mac 7100 that I got from @gutbomb https://youtube.com/live/IoIwy_EmofU?feature=share

The Apple II is my favorite Retro Computer and the best for a beginner!

https://youtu.be/d8Fsca41_RM

#APRILapples #apple #retro

TIL that there’s a new A2FPGA card that supports HDMI video, sound, and serial for the Apple II (including the IIGS video modes)!

https://www.reactivemicro.com/product/a2fpga-multicard/

This means the Testbench Tower of Power’s gonna need some upgrades soon…
… the A2FPGA itself, for my IIGS to be able to output to HDMI
… a second ADB-USB Wombat, so the IIGS can share the keyboard/mouse with the IIfx and Mac Mini
… an HDMI switch, so the IIGS can share my testbench monitor with the IIfx and Mac Mini
… an HDMI audio splitter, because my testbench monitor doesn't have a speaker built in

and then, not only will I finally be able to experience IIGS gaming in colour, I won't have to sit on the floor to use it anymore 😂

#RetroComputing #AprilApples https://oldbytes.space/@MuseumJoe/112317325584872244