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A couple of days ago, I emailed my old high school to see if they had any old Apple products sitting in a closet somewhere.  Apparently they have a G4 and (the person thinks) a cheese-grater tower of unknown provenance.  I know nothing other than that (i.e., I don't know if it is a MDD...

Acquired an SE/30 that looked great on Craigslist (worked, case in great shape).  However, it got damaged in shipping.  Case was cracked and the HD was never screwed down so it flopped all over and appears to have damaged the CRT. Motherboard seems nice (and will send it off for recapping) and...

My Portable had the same issue with the screen after I got it recapped, etc.  I was lucky enough to find a sealed NOS LCD service part that I replaced it with, and it worked fine, so I would wager the problem is the LCD itself. I seem to recall Techknight saying cleaning the LCD contacts could...

Is there a useful tool for removing socketed chips?  Using my hands and/or a pair of tweezers has caused me to bend some of the pins.  I have bent them back but heavens knows if they work now...

For Christmas, someone got me an Apple I schematic printed on aluminum and signed by Steve Wozniak.  Will go nice above my little "museum."

Fascinating!  Thanks for the info! I am not sure i trust myself to remove things directly from the board without breaking them.  Since you have mentioned that the RAM in question is available from a local store relatively cheaply, I think I may just pick up a number of chips and replace all the...

Typing "INT" (for Integer, as you recommended above) yields "Language not available."  Typing "FP" does nothing, just gives me a new prompt.

So it boots the Dos 3.3 master disk I made from the Apple IIc.  I get the screen seen in the attached picture.  Is there some prompt I should type?

Hm.  I don't recall.  I will try it now.  For some reason the APTest also wouldn't load in the past, but last night it did.  I am not sure what I did to change it, but who knows.  I shall report back shortly!

So I did finally get it to load the ApTest program (the manual for which I found here: http://www.callapple.org/Members/soft/apple2/inhouse/ApTest.pdf) -- both when I had the RAM chip I may have broken installed and it taken out or the language card installed.   With the potentially killed RAM...

So, for the sake of closure: I got a repaired 400k internal drive and it ejects on shut down just fine :)

Yes, without the disk controller I get the prompt (and the machine worked once I put that RAM chip in the right way.  When it was in the wrong way, it got HOT, lol).  I also get the prompt when the disk controller and disk II are installed (but without a disk put in)

Switched the RAM chip direction, and it turned on fine to the "Apple ][" on the top of the screen.  Machine seems to be doing the same thing.  Disk just spins and spins and spins and CTRL-RESET doesn't do anything.  If I cut the power and turn it back on, I get a garbled screen, the disk drive...

Never mind, I figured it out and got it off. But then I was an idiot and I am fairly sure put the chip on the board backwards.  I turned the machine on, heard a pop, the screen was all garbled, and the ram chip I replaced was HOT. So... what did I kill by my stupidity

Got it.  Which RAM chip on the card comes off and is there a trick to removing it?  None of them *look* removable...

Same thing with the "APTest" program.  Works on the IIc and I can run various diagnostics, but the II+ doesn't seem to do anything...

So I tried loading the DOS 3.3 disk.  In the Apple IIc I have, it gives me the "loading Integer Basic" prompt.  In the II+, it does nothing.  It just spins the disk over and over, but the screen only reads "Apple II"...  I tried moving the disk controller card into slot 7, to see if there was a...

I will make a DOS 3.3 Master disk this evening and give it a try.  Thanks for all of your help!

Ok here is a video of what it does with "Oregon Trail."  You'll see at first it says 64k needed.  Than I restart and it tries to load it but freezes on the welcoming screen and then the disk drive stops spinning.  I am able to reset the machine (silly me did not know you had to do "control...

The language card appears to be fit in properly (I removed it and the ram chip it uses to plug into the machine) and replugged them in.  Picture attached. I will try to take a video of it booting with my ADTPro disk to show you what it does (it just kind of freezes).