Questions tagged [apple]
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What was the reason why Bill Gates gave Apple a capital injection? [duplicate]
There is this idea that the capital injection that Apple got from Microsoft and Bill Gates was some sort of noble gesture, but I always thought was the case that this was purely a business deal. ...
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What has Apple's motivation for wanting your old devices back? [closed]
It seems that this trade-in practice of trying to get old Apple devices off the market is as old as the Apple company itself. I just wonder where this practice comes from because all other electronic ...
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What is the function of Vintage Apple Audio cable 590-0618-A
This 590-0618-A adapter has a 1/8" TRS plug and dual RCA jacks (red and white), and is about ten inches long. Looks like a stereo adapter, but guess what: ohmmeter checks show series resistance ...
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What is the format of a DART disk image file?
In the early 1990s, Apple used a utility called the Disk Archive / Retrieval Tool, or DART, to make compressed images of floppy disks. It was superseded by Disk Copy. Very little information about ...
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Default Mac OS 8 default desktop color
I'm trying to find the CMYK or RGB equivalent for the standard Mac OS 8 default desktop color. Appreciate any assistance. Thank you!
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What was "Mac SLM" or "ASLM"?
While looking through a very old codebase, I found some preprocessor defines and comments referring to something called "Mac SLM" or "ASLM". From the context, it appears to have ...
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Getting garbled text when using ADTPro with Apple IIc and serial connection
I am currently having issues while trying to use ADTPro to connect to my Apple IIc and was wondering whether anyone could help me. I am using this serial connection kit and trying to bootstrap from ...
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Is there a reason why Apple servers did not catch on?
Is there a reason why Apple server technologies like Apple Workgroup Server and the Apple Network Server never gained widespread use and popularity?
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Who was responsible for the Apple business practice of taking back old hardware when selling the new stuff?
I have been told and I have read that old Apple computers like the Lisa are pretty hard to come by. The Lisa was a bit over-priced, had limited software and just was generally outclassed by the ...
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Apple II color monitor displays everything in green
I have an AppleColor composite monitor (A2M6020) that only shows green-scale. The color toggle switch on the front doesn’t change anything. I have plugged the monitor into multiple devices with the ...
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Mac Plus refusing to read disks
OK, so I was gifted a Mac Plus a couple weeks ago, and finally got it up and running a couple days ago (had to wait for mouse and a couple lots of disks for it to arrive, since it came as just the Mac ...
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Error in Apple I manual's Wozmon listing or Hardware description?
The Apple I Operation Manual includes a full listing of Steve Wozniak's amazing 256 byte 6502 Hex Monitor, aka Wozmon, as well as some explanation of how to interact with the Apple I hardware. My ...
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ImageWriter II occasionally prints hex dumps
I have an Apple ImageWriter II that I'm controlling directly over a serial port (Node.JS + serialport, Windows 10). Generally speaking, it works fine. However, occasionally instead of printing text / ...
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Layout of pre-APM Apple partition map
Page 3-25 of Inside Macintosh: Devices describes the format of a partition map entry. The definition of the pmSig field says: The partition signature. This field should contain the value of the ...
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Laser fd-100 Stepper motor vibrates
I have a Laser FD-100 that doesn’t work. the stepper motor just vibrates instead of moves. I took it out and greased it and still nothing. There are 3 pins on the board that look broken. What are they ...
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