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I think I have it running well now. So far it has powered down and restarted several times today without incident. Since it was being fickle about booting, I have reseated the processor and co-processor, all RAM SIMMs, the ROM SIMM and replaced one PRAM battery that was showing 3.5v instead of 3.6v. I also had to clean and lubricate the floppy drive to get it to read disks properly. My fingers are crossed that it will remain a solid performer now.
great news man!
I was given an Apple II over the weekend. It's a bit of a mutant and ugly as sin but the serial number and badge do indicate it started as a plain Apple II.
It's a very late 1983 model (I honestly had no idea they manufactured plain IIs that late). It has a final revision logic board (RFI). Whoever owned it was a hobbiest, for sure. It has AppleSoft FP BASIC ROMs on the logic board (making it an Apple II Plus, essentially) and a full 64K RAM with the Language Card. The shift-key mod has been made. In the slots are a Videx VideoTerm 80-column card, a Grappler and a Disk II card. An external DIP-8 socket connects back to the internal game port socket on the logic board. The coup de grace is a big, 110V case fan bolted to the underside of the lid with vent holes drilled up top.
It's a very late 1983 model (I honestly had no idea they manufactured plain IIs that late). It has a final revision logic board (RFI). Whoever owned it was a hobbiest, for sure. It has AppleSoft FP BASIC ROMs on the logic board (making it an Apple II Plus, essentially) and a full 64K RAM with the Language Card. The shift-key mod has been made. In the slots are a Videx VideoTerm 80-column card, a Grappler and a Disk II card. An external DIP-8 socket connects back to the internal game port socket on the logic board. The coup de grace is a big, 110V case fan bolted to the underside of the lid with vent holes drilled up top.
I picked up a II plus , a II and a 540c with a Laserjet II printer for the cost of the trip. Pictures will come soon of what I get working. I found a radius rocket in a box so I am gonna have questions as I never k we anything about them. The guy said thirty dollars until I drove two hours then said I just wanted them to go to a good home. After showing him pictures of my apple stuff, which I have more pictures of than my kids at the moment on my phone, he said all yours and I was on my way. I looked in the II and all the capacitors look different in location to mine so I will have to see what's up there.
mcdermd, those holes look almost like an old analog-phone dialing plate! Very nice find. Almost an good idea to keep it as it is, an exsample of hot-rodded hobby machine from early 80's. If you want to go the restore-way, that lid you can find from ebay, sometimes they pop up without the logo plate for cheap.
