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Post #13 by MacNoob
Source Forum68kMLA
CategoryTroubleshooting
Post DateMon, 10 Dec 2007 - 21:42
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/coming-my-way-from-freecycle-apple-stuff.10922/
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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 the power supply, case and keyboard from #2, the mainboard from #1, and the following cards to fill it up:

0 Orange 16k (I guess slot 0 is only good for a 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:

buzzy power supply

semi broken (repaired) keyboard

motherboard nonbooting

Macrotech 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'm moving this to the Apple II board - please reply there rather than here!

mp.ls