I got an Apple ][+ off Freecycle a while ago.
I'm totally stoked, because the ][+ was my first home computer.
The guy I got it from told me "I hope you can get it to work right".
These machines are fairly simple, so really, how much can go wrong?
Seems to power up okay, but after being on for a while, double-quote characters
begin to appear in random places on the screen. Must be flaky RAM.
So I start shuffling RAM chips around so eventually I have the first 16K bank
populated with chips that previously had been in the second bank.
Power up, write a short program, let it run for a while and problem appears to be solved. Yay!
As I'm deciding where to buy a new set of 4116 chips,
I hear a faint cracking sound and notice some white smoke begin to waft
out of the power supply. Oh well. Guess I'm done for today.
I'm totally stoked, because the ][+ was my first home computer.
The guy I got it from told me "I hope you can get it to work right".
These machines are fairly simple, so really, how much can go wrong?
Seems to power up okay, but after being on for a while, double-quote characters
begin to appear in random places on the screen. Must be flaky RAM.
So I start shuffling RAM chips around so eventually I have the first 16K bank
populated with chips that previously had been in the second bank.
Power up, write a short program, let it run for a while and problem appears to be solved. Yay!
As I'm deciding where to buy a new set of 4116 chips,
I hear a faint cracking sound and notice some white smoke begin to waft
out of the power supply. Oh well. Guess I'm done for today.