Re: II+ Video problems.

[John Laughlin <john242ti@premier1.net>]

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
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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