Re: Fatal problem with Apple II?

[John Robertson <jrr@flippers.com>]

Chances are the disk controller card was damaged by this insertion
with the power on. Have you tried a second controller?

John :-#)#

On Mon, 03 Jan 2000 12:53:06 -0600, "Dr. Forbin" <sark314@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>I have a '78 Apple II that, at some point in the distant past, had its
>disk controller card removed and reinserted while the system was on. 
>Ever since then, the machine has of course not worked properly (fails to
>look at the floppy upon boot-up [with Applesoft card installed],
>characters sometimes don't correspond to keys, etc.).  Is there anything
>at all I can do short of junking it?  The machine was in mint shape
>otherwise.

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