Re: II+ Video problems.

[Stephen Shaw <xstephenx@apple2.org.za>]

On Sun, 01 Jul 2001 00:31:19 +0000, John Laughlin wrote:

> waynes@intergate.ca wrote:
>>
> Wayne+Mark, all of my IIe's have had socketed chips.  None were
> soldered.  Even my first IIe (owned it from 1988-95) was that way.  I
> even looked at some at my college the last time I was in their Apple/Mac
> lab, and, sure enough, everything was socketed.  Apple started doing
> this around 1986 or so, here in the states.  The International IIe's may

NO the PAL IIe I have from new (1983) had socketed chips. Later (+/-1986) the
RAM was soldered in.

> be different, though...  Remember, all of mine have been U.S./Canadian
> model systems.  The Disk ][ cards were the same as the IIe boards.  All
> socketed.  The Apple 5.25 drive controller, however, has some of the
> original chips soldered.  So, I'm beginning to think that things changed
> around mid production of the beige enhanced //e.
>
>> Mark Cummings wrote
>> >John,
>> >
>> >do you think your various IIe's with socketed RAMs were made that way, or
>> >possibly the result of being repaired ?
>> >My IIe non-enhanced (when new) had and still has soldered in RAMs. Perhaps
>> >it depends where the boards were assembled or a result of a manufacturing
>> >change.
>> >
>> >And I'm not counting, otherwise I'd have to count mine too :) And I'd have
>> >to re-count weekly due to constant collecting.
>>
>> I have over a dozen earlier IIes with every single chip socketed including
>> RAM. The RAM all have the Apple logo on them. Looking through 40 or so
>> IIes, it seems like they gradually started soldering in chips until finally
>> there were only a few socketed ones
>>
>>         Wayne
>>
> -J

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