Tom Greene

Retro computer nerd and floppy disk collector. Mostly focused on Apple II hardware and software preservation

Web: https://cowgod.org
Location: New Jersey, USA

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2025-10-25 18:13:06 CEST

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The first 44000 or so IIe's shipped with the "revision A" motherboard which does not have DHR capability. No ROM change. Apple offered a motherboard swap for people who needed DHR.
The enhanced IIe came later, it adds a 65C02 CPU along with the ROM updates and mousetext. Mostly it makes the IIe more like the IIc.

2025-07-18 22:30:28 CEST

A reminder for anyone who has a clothes dryer in their home... be sure to clean (or hire someone to clean) the exhaust vent regularly. And it's not a bad idea to clean the inside of the machine once in a while too.
Judging by the burnt lint and awful smell, there was very likely a small fire inside my dryer, fortunately it did not spread.
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2025-03-31 21:04:09 CEST

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Yeah was just looking at eBay prices now, that's kind of crazy. I bought all this stuff super cheap in 2023. The digital modems were the most expensive part and that was about $140 US.

2025-03-31 20:30:36 CEST

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Yep there a bunch of different cards for it. I got an 8-port 33.6K card and also 24 digital 56K modems, and some other cards needed to make everything work the way that I wanted. It has some voice interfaces that provide analog phone service so you can attach a modem and dial in as if it were an actual copper phone line.

2025-03-28 05:19:37 CET

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Not one antivirus scanner on VirusTotal detects this. How will I scan my Apple II warez 😆

2024-11-09 01:58:59 CET

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Painted my living room a couple years ago in about 12 hours (the night before the furniture was being delivered)... it was not a good time.

2024-09-22 23:36:51 CEST

A little to the left and everything would have been fine
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2024-09-13 23:01:43 CEST

Mail's here
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2024-09-06 08:25:19 CEST

Found on the disk for the Atari ST version of Micro League Baseball
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2024-08-06 06:55:48 CEST

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CREAF was their stock symbol when they were listed on NASDAQ but that doesn't really answer the question.