MacNoob
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Continued from the thread in Conquests:
Well, looks like I have enough stuff here to make one really really really nice ][+ and one parts unit. Unit #2 doesn't power on properly - sometimes I get a screenful of random characters, sometimes about 6 vertical green/black bars.
edit: I removed the Suprterminal card; it has a little kludgy daughterboard that replaces one mothernboard chip - and this unit works now! So I don't need to swap mainboards, I'll just use #2 as the base for a "really nice" machine and #1 as a parts tester.
The power supply on Unit #1 is a little whiney and the keyboard mounts (on the keyboard itself) are pretty broken - I fixed that and am putting it back in tonight. So I figure I'll use unit #2 as my good machine, and the following cards to fill it up:
"good" unit #2:
0 Macrotech 16k card
1 Videx serial/parallel
2 Videx Ultraterm 80/160
3 256k Ramfactor card
4 256k 3.6mhz Transwarp card
5 VTech universal floppy controller
6 Apple Disk II controller
7 "Bison" Z80 softcard?
2 Disk II drives
a 3.5" drive of some sort
Joystick
Apple Monitor III
Cooling fan
Monitor stand.
Leftover for unit #1:
buzzy power supply
semi broken (repaired) keyboard
motherboard OK now
Orange 16k (I guess slot 0 is only good for a 16k card?)
ASI-1 serial card
Disk II card
Suprterminal 80-col
Apple 'all memory expansion'
One Disk II drive and one 5.25" low profile no name drive.
Cooling fan. Monitor stand.
Whattaya think? Suppose that config will all work together? I've moved this from the Conquests board since now I'm looking for info rather than just gloating.
Well, looks like I have enough stuff here to make one really really really nice ][+ and one parts unit. Unit #2 doesn't power on properly - sometimes I get a screenful of random characters, sometimes about 6 vertical green/black bars.
edit: I removed the Suprterminal card; it has a little kludgy daughterboard that replaces one mothernboard chip - and this unit works now! So I don't need to swap mainboards, I'll just use #2 as the base for a "really nice" machine and #1 as a parts tester.
The power supply on Unit #1 is a little whiney and the keyboard mounts (on the keyboard itself) are pretty broken - I fixed that and am putting it back in tonight. So I figure I'll use unit #2 as my good machine, and the following cards to fill it up:
"good" unit #2:
0 Macrotech 16k card
1 Videx serial/parallel
2 Videx Ultraterm 80/160
3 256k Ramfactor card
4 256k 3.6mhz Transwarp card
5 VTech universal floppy controller
6 Apple Disk II controller
7 "Bison" Z80 softcard?
2 Disk II drives
a 3.5" drive of some sort
Joystick
Apple Monitor III
Cooling fan
Monitor stand.
Leftover for unit #1:
buzzy power supply
semi broken (repaired) keyboard
motherboard OK now
Orange 16k (I guess slot 0 is only good for a 16k card?)
ASI-1 serial card
Disk II card
Suprterminal 80-col
Apple 'all memory expansion'
One Disk II drive and one 5.25" low profile no name drive.
Cooling fan. Monitor stand.
Whattaya think? Suppose that config will all work together? I've moved this from the Conquests board since now I'm looking for info rather than just gloating.
