Re: Resurrecting Vintage II+

[Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.bc.ca>]

There's several things that could be be happening. However more info is needed
to rule out some possibilities.
One possibility: check your computer for a card with a red switch called a
ROM card. If there is flip the switch and try starting the II+ with a floppy in
the drive

If there's no ROM card then maybe you could try one thing:
With no disk in the drive turn on the Apple II+. then do a Control-Reset.
If you have a ] or > prompt at that time let me know.
If you have a * prompt then try a Control-B then press return. That should give

you either a ] or > prompt. It's important which one you have.



"Guy H. Conger" wrote:

> I am trying to bring back to life an old Apple ii+ (48K) with dual 5 1/4
> floppies and monochrome monitor.  Have DOS 3.3 Master, supposedly, but no
> manuals.  It won't boot from the 3.3 master (either the original or another
> copy) and just dumps me out to the * prompt.  I also have a weird display
> problem where I have like 3 active prompts, and a 10 character column width
> which makes everything extremely ugly.  Reset puts me into integer basic (I
> think.  At least it's the > prompt.)  I've searched around in the FAQ's, but
> I was wondering, aside from asking here, if there is a guide to troubleshoot
> ancient systems of this type, including potential hardware problems.  Do
> service manuals exist?  Thanks in advance.
>
> Guy