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

["William Garber" <willy46pa@garberstreet.com>]

"John" <john8520@gmail.com> wrote in message 1184377352.084481.34870@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com">news:1184377352.084481.34870@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
: 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

Looks like a monitor problem, not with the II+.
Possibly horizontal hold. Does it have those
types of controls? Most of mine only have vertical
controls, which seems minimal. You could also try
connecting it to a TV to verify that it is, or isn't,
a problem with the monitor.

William Garber
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