Re: Hints/feedback on disk reading failure on Apple IIe

["IceMan" <toomuch@spam.here>]

"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message
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> No, the IIgs (and most other) memory expansion boards use 256K DRAMs.

    Darn, I'll have to look further then...

> Congratulations--most people who do this rarely make a mess of it.  ;-)

    Was this ironic? Did you mean "most people who do this usually make a
mess of it"? Sorry, I really didn't get the phrase...

> Too much heat for too long is the biggest problem, causing delamination
> of the traces from the board and occasionally heat death of a chip.

    Dead on.

> Be thankful for every soldered-in chip--it is much less likely to
> fail due to actual chip failure than due to socket/lead contact
> failure.

    Yes, you are perfectly correct.

>  Of the
> remaining few percent, most "dead" Apple II's would have been
> junked whether socketed or not, since only a tiny fraction of
> owners have any clue about chip-level diagnosis and replacement.

    Again, yes. It is most likely that people would trash an old Apple II
without having a clue whether it has socketed chips or not.

> It is quite easy to junk something that would take an hour or
> two to fix when a full replacement is so easily done.

    Again you're right. But the feeling you get when a beloved old piece of
hardware comes back to life: priceless.

    Luke