Re: My Apple ][+ is now very, very sad...

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Michael J. Mahon wrote:
> John wrote:
>
> > This is such a disappointment. After putting in all that time to get
> > my ][+ nice and clean and looking new, and having spent hours
> > disassembling and reassembling the keyboard to get it working just
> > right, it dies on me, mostly dead anyway. At least I got a few days of
> > fun with it after I cleaned it up.
> >
> > Anyway, yesterday afternoon I trekked down to the basement to align
> > and calibrate my Disk ][s. I turned on the lights, shut off the
> > dehumidifier (its so loud!) and booted up the ][+. At first I freaked
> > out because I wasn't getting any video, then I noticed that the
> > Monitor ][ was just turned off, so I sighed a sigh of relief and
> > turned it on. And then I started to freak out. I was greeted with a
> > very icky looking screen, instead of the normal APPLE ][ with the
> > little ] prompt, I got this:
> >
> > http://i12.tinypic.com/6c2xh6p.jpg
>
>
> There is no doubt--this is *definitely* a monitor problem,
> and it is the horizontal hold.

And, in light of subsequent information, my conclusion is
*definitely wrong*!  ;-)

Jeff nailed it when he noted that the raster is confined to
the normal Apple II area, since a horizontal hold problem
would usually go full-width due to overscan.

-michael

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