The floppy drive for the Commodore 64 has its own power supply and its own 6502 compute acting as it's controller to talk to the Commodore 64 Drive I/O (Which was serial back then), so that is normal for that. Its an ancient form of SCSI before SCSI came along.
The Apple II Drive spinning is normal, it will do that if there is no disk in it to read. Newer IIe cards and drives stop after a while. The Boot Sequence is in the Apple II ROMs, not in the cards. If the cable was on backwards, you think that Compaq gave a nice fireworks show, the Apple will do it too but with a lot of black smoke coming out the vent holes.
My Q950 fell out a 5 story window some 20 years ago and though the case is heavily damaged, it still together and working (well working when I last turned it on before putting it in storage). The case is cracked in many places unfortunately, but it still works (then).
The monitor you have should work with the Apple II+. Check if it has a composite video jack or RCA Cable on the back.
The Apple II Drive spinning is normal, it will do that if there is no disk in it to read. Newer IIe cards and drives stop after a while. The Boot Sequence is in the Apple II ROMs, not in the cards. If the cable was on backwards, you think that Compaq gave a nice fireworks show, the Apple will do it too but with a lot of black smoke coming out the vent holes.
My Q950 fell out a 5 story window some 20 years ago and though the case is heavily damaged, it still together and working (well working when I last turned it on before putting it in storage). The case is cracked in many places unfortunately, but it still works (then).
The monitor you have should work with the Apple II+. Check if it has a composite video jack or RCA Cable on the back.