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A big thank you to @Tomswork who's sending me an MMU for my IIe.

I am in contact with someone on another forum in the hope I can also get another complete working board for spares, but he needs to test it first.

I have spares for most of my machines, but the Apple IIe, not so much, so a backup plan is needed.

This will be yet another save from Tom, who helped me get my Mac Classic back up and running again.

Thanks so much.
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It's always good to have a backup plan, and I have managed to locate a spare Apple IIe working mainboard in the UK :) The person I'm getting it from tested for 3 hrs straight and it behaved itself.

I am very much expecting the MMU from @Tomswork to fully fix my machine, but if for some reason it doesn't I at least have options.

In addition, it'll give me a stash of spares either way, something I didn't have before.
Collector of many retro things!
800XL and 65XE both with Ultimate1MB,VBXL/XE & PokeyMax, SIDE3, SDrive Max, 2x 1010 cassette, 2x 1050 one with Happy mod, 3x 2600 Jr, 7800 and Lynx II
Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
Plus the rest, totalling around 50 machines including a QL, 3x BBC Model B, Electron, Spectrums, ZX81 etc...
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:dualthumbup:
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ZX81->Spectrum->Memotech MTX->Sinclair QL->520STM->BBC Micro->TT030->PCs & Sun Workstations.
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@Tomswork

You sir, are an absolute star!!

This arrived today, just 4 days after posting from Canada:

PXL_20230426_183956731.jpg

And I can safely say that it works just fine in my PAL IIe :)

:girldance:

Also, after 15-20 minutes of running my test, it has not yet failed either :)

:girldance: :girldance:

I'm going to leave it running for a while to be 100% sure, but it's looking very good and confirms my MMU was definitely marginal.

I'll confirm when it's been running a couple of hours, but so far it really is looking fixed.
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800XL and 65XE both with Ultimate1MB,VBXL/XE & PokeyMax, SIDE3, SDrive Max, 2x 1010 cassette, 2x 1050 one with Happy mod, 3x 2600 Jr, 7800 and Lynx II
Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
Plus the rest, totalling around 50 machines including a QL, 3x BBC Model B, Electron, Spectrums, ZX81 etc...
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:dualthumbup: :yay2: :cheer: :crossed1:
Intro retro computers since before they were retro...
ZX81->Spectrum->Memotech MTX->Sinclair QL->520STM->BBC Micro->TT030->PCs & Sun Workstations.
Added code to the MiNT kernel (still there the last time I checked) + put together MiNTOS.
Collection now with added Macs, Amigas, Suns and Acorns.
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stephen_usher wrote: 26 Apr 2023 20:24 :dualthumbup: :yay2: :cheer: :crossed1:
It's well into the failure zone now and so far so good :)
Collector of many retro things!
800XL and 65XE both with Ultimate1MB,VBXL/XE & PokeyMax, SIDE3, SDrive Max, 2x 1010 cassette, 2x 1050 one with Happy mod, 3x 2600 Jr, 7800 and Lynx II
Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
Plus the rest, totalling around 50 machines including a QL, 3x BBC Model B, Electron, Spectrums, ZX81 etc...
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Well, I think we all know what this means:

:girldance: :girldance: :girldance:

I just checked and the machine is running just fine and dandy :)

That's nearly 3 hours without an issue. It was 15 minutes tops before (Without extra cooling)

I am however going to do a much longer test tomorrow, but I am fully expecting it to pan out just fine.
Collector of many retro things!
800XL and 65XE both with Ultimate1MB,VBXL/XE & PokeyMax, SIDE3, SDrive Max, 2x 1010 cassette, 2x 1050 one with Happy mod, 3x 2600 Jr, 7800 and Lynx II
Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
Plus the rest, totalling around 50 machines including a QL, 3x BBC Model B, Electron, Spectrums, ZX81 etc...
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Vety nice canada post goes first class air from Vancouver to the uk on britsh air. And is normal fast coming this way to


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No back to apple 2e gaming

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Tomswork wrote: 26 Apr 2023 23:19 No back to apple 2e gaming

Tom
:)
Collector of many retro things!
800XL and 65XE both with Ultimate1MB,VBXL/XE & PokeyMax, SIDE3, SDrive Max, 2x 1010 cassette, 2x 1050 one with Happy mod, 3x 2600 Jr, 7800 and Lynx II
Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
Plus the rest, totalling around 50 machines including a QL, 3x BBC Model B, Electron, Spectrums, ZX81 etc...

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