Re: Apple II discriminates

[quadrajet1@aol.com (Quadrajet1)]

>Strange - I just got these two vanilla II+'es (Europluses), and the
>original Apple II diskdrive w/interface.
>
>This works well in one of them (both boot and respond fine), but when I
>put the drive/interface combo onto the other II+,
>I get read and boot errors. Same drive, same interface, same cable, same
>disks, works good in one but has troubles in another II.
>
>Putting the interface into another slot on the 'buggy' II didn't help.
>It does recognise the disks though and responds to PR#6 commands. Any ideas?
>
>Regards, Ruud

   Sounds like you may have a bad memory chip.  Do you have 48k, or do you have
a 16K language (RAM) card in both of them?  Sometimes people take the 16k card
out forget to replace the empty socket with a RAM chip.

Raymond