Re: Yay! Finally got myself a IIgs!

[et472@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Michael Black)]

Mitchell Spector (mitch2gs@hotmail.com) writes:
> John <jlogo10@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> 
>>On 29 Jun 2006 02:40:26 -0700, "skylarking" <petsoundsnz@gmail.com>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>Even the Apple /// works ok? I thought that they were notoriously
>>>unreliable, and that was one of the reasons they flopped.
>>
>>The first release of the Apple /// had a near 100% failure rate due to
>>system overheating.  The revised model (Dec '81) was better and is
>>probably the most common model found.  The Apple /// Plus released in
>>Dec '83 was the most reliable revision of all but it was too little to
>>late and was dumped early in 1984.
> 
>     I have one of the revised Apple III's as well, and, for the most part, 
> it works fine while operating (I vaguely remember I would sometimes
> have trouble getting it to cold boot but I think it is more a case of
> age and loose chip contacts). 

But wasn't that the issue?  Something about bad contacts on the IC sockets,
and heat making it worse.  So one revision, if I'm remembering properly,
was to include extra bits of metal to keep the ICs in the sockets.

  Michael