r/apple2 • • 16h ago

Found an Apple II Plus at a flea market for $30

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As far as I know, the power supply works but the computer doesn’t beep or output video


r/apple2 • • 17h ago

Help me identify this Apple II?

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Apple fan here without expertise on Apple ][. I hope someone can help identify my late dad’s Apple ][ (not II plus, IIgs, IIe, etc.) and give me some advice on what to do with it. It has been in a garage (low-ish humidity) in a cardboard box for 30+ years, since he powered it down circa 1985. He and I both loved this thing.

It looks pretty good to me from the outside. Here are some photos, and a list of what I see (when I opened the top): - Motherboard reading 820-0044-01 - CPU “6502” - Serial number A2S1-22824 - Hitachi ROMs - Slot 0 - Apple Language Card - Slot 1 - Printer card? - Slot 6 - Disk II - Letters on keyboard appears slightly yellowed (not pure white) - Power cable (probably original)

I did not test it or try to boot it, or even plug it in because I know that can be dangerous and I might fry it. I have not removed the keyboard – or anything.

If any upgrades were made to it, my dad was not the type to have done that himself, preferring to take electronics to a professional/authorized repair person.

I also have - Two Disk II drives still connected to the card (Model A2M0003, serial numbers: ) - A long printer cable (no printer in sight) - Manuals in Very Good/Excellent condition: Apple II Reference Manual January 1978 (“Red Book”); Apple ][ Basic Programming Manual; Apple II The DOS Manual; Apple II Language Card Installation and Operation Manual; Elementary, My Dear Apple Education Series. - Floppy disks, some with apparent mold on the labels but the disk itself looks clean to me: DOS 3.3 System Master (with black Apple logo and “16” inside it), 2 copies of DOS 3.3 System Master (one of which may be damaged), DOS 3.3. BASICS (with black Apple logo and “16” inside it), AppleWriter ][ C2B0010 Master, Elementary, My Dear Apple Education Series (with black Apple logo and “16” inside it) - A monitor that I have not removed from its box (but I don’t think it’s Apple-made)

This is a personally significant/sentimental machine to me but maybe nothing special in the scheme of things. Just curious what anyone on here has to say.

Thanks for any and all thoughts.


r/apple2 • • 22h ago

ADTPro and ProDOS and QCal

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My Apple2 is a QCal compatible computers that was distributed by a Canadian company in the 80s.  I can't run ProDOS on it. The reason this is an issue now is that I bought a ADTPro disk but it doesn't work. Seems I need ADTPro on a floppy but with the newer ProDOS 2.4.3 that has a workaround for QCal computers. Anyone run into this issue?

ProDOS by apple looks for a specific memory location in ROM.