This is probably not interesting to anyone but me, but I’m going to completely forget something if I don’t list the things I want to try at some point, and wind up doing something less interesting before something more interesting.
To do
Things I plan to do still but haven’t yet. Randomly organized, mostly tedious. Probably the more creative things will come after most of these.
- Get all the Apple II pluses working (four of them, five if you count a clone, six if you count the Bell & Howell one).
- Get the unenhanced //e working, contemplate swapping chips with one of the loose motherboards to enhance the one in the case.
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Experiment with Apple II peripheral cards.
- CP/M cards (generic one, MS SoftCard)
- Replay 2 card
- Mockingboard clone
- Printer cards (Alphabits card, Epson APL board)
- Modem cards (Apple-Cat, MicroModem II and coupler)
- RAM cards (Saturn 32K, others)
- Titan accelerator //e card
- Video cards (Vision 80, some other Videx card, others)
- Misc (Softronics keyswitch, SCSI card)
- Use the Apple IIgs
- Put the video chip bundled with the X/ProFile into the Lisa so I don’t have to deserialize the Lisa applications
- Recap four SE/30s. Setup ethernet card in one of them.
- Finish archiving floppies with Kryoflux and/or DiscFerret
- Downgrade one of my Disk ][ cards to 13-sector.
- Diagnose/fix the //c with RAM trouble
- Clean up and diagnose three //cs
- Get some sort of office-local PBX going for modem communication
- Diagnose/fix/clean three ][+es (replace chargen chip, failed RAM)
- Diagnose/fix QX-10 floppy drive
- Setup LC III with IIe card (hardware assembled, may need either system enabler or MacOS reinstall)
- Install AppleTalk board in ImageWriter II and get it on the network
- Install AztecMonster SCSI-CF interface in something (probably one of the SE/30s).
- Scan InCider/A+ issues
- Clean/setup NeXTstation TurboColor
- Install PC compatibility card in something, probably requires cleaning/setting up older PowerMac as well
- Put Airport cards in iMac G3s, eMacs, iMac G4s
- Try writing modem driver that works over SSC connection to modern machine
- Get one or both Timex-Sinclair 1000s working (requires at least connecting a display), and try to connect its audio/video ports to a modern machine
- Connect the audio/video ports of the Bell & Howell ][+ to a modern machine
- Put one of the spare //e motherboards and Disk ][s into a Power Mac G4 case
- Build a second dongle for the Workstation card I have that doesn’t have one
- Work out whether it’s possible to control a CD player with frame accuracy and/or create a Laserdisc simulator, recreate Rollercoaster.
- Set up a networked machine that can make clapping noises to turn something on and off with the Clapper.
- Fix the degraded pads in the Lisa keyboard, maybe do the other one as well.
- Do Apple /// clock upgrade
- Play around with the III plus II / III plus IIe card sets in the Apple ///.
- Try InLine IN1240 to see if it can deal with Apple II video
- Clean/setup eMates, try serial box and probes, maybe rebuild battery packs, maybe swap parts so that one is mostly pristine (one has a cracked screen, other has stickers on it).
- Get ProFile running on Apple ///, possibly get LLF kit and reformat
- Get CMS SCSI drive running on an Apple II
- Upgrade some old Mac (6116CD?) with Sonnet G3 upgrade board
- Do something interesting with the line of iMac G4s in my office
- Profile and work with the Aquarius computer system
- Build the Lisa 2MB RAM card
- Build the Lisa SCSI card
- Try to setup the Mac Portable using a more powerful power adapter, and maybe rebuild its battery pack.
- Explore and get the Compaq Portable II running
- Get the Bernoulli box running off the Compaq Portable II
- Get the Coco 1 running
- Get the Coco 2 running
- See if I can get anywhere with the X-Pad for the Cocos.
- Get the TI 99/4as running, experiment with the speech synthesizer
- Scan all documentation and books and magazines
- Test and reconstitute second Apple III
- Build a PiBook with the Rasberry Pi and Lapdock
- Clean up the Macintosh TV and try to get it running
- Try to get the Apple Interactive TV Box to do something. Use the SCSI port? Fake the service?
- Build a LEGO robot that can be controlled with the Apple II LEGO interface box.
- Build the Digi-Comp 1 (and maybe connect it to something outside? Maybe the LEGO controller can drive it?)
- Clean and try to repair Aquarius cassette deck (replace power cord)
- Use the Replica 1
- Set up the ProFile LLF kit and reformat the ProFile drive
- Rebuild the interface/power cable for the Silentype and try to connect it to various computers
- Try to get the Timex printer working with the Timex-Sinclair 1000s
- Set up the language card with Programmers Aid #1 chip in something and try it out
- Get Merlin working
- Get Split Second working
- Experiment with the Lisa parallel card
- Experiment with the Apple III parallel card
- Try to get the IXO terminal to do something (write something it can communicate with?)
- Try to get QX-10 communicating with the outside world via the CR-103, RS232 card, and the acoustic coupler
- Get the C64 running
- Do something with the 2-3 spare //e boards I have.
- Use everything!
That’s a really long list. And probably many of those individual items will expand to bigger things as I get to them. It’ll certainly be interesting getting through it, but I can’t imagine that it’ll be done anytime soon. What I do, when it gets to a reportable point, will be reported on this site, though.