Got to love wood heat in the winter... I managed to static zap my
beloved IIe this morning. Symptoms were odd. It will boot fine, but
the keyboard spits random (and multibyte) garbage from most keys.
Feeling clever, I swapped in chips one-at-a-time from my only spare IIe.
When I got to the "AY" chip on the far right (adjacent to the keyboard
connector), the behavior changed to single characters - all of them
incorrect and random...
Next, I swapped in the extra motherboard (after replacing all the chips)
and, you guessed it, it now produces random single characters. From (2)
working IIe's down to zero in less than a half hour. Whatever was still
borken on the old motherboard must have destroyed the AY chip.
Anyone have suggstions? Anyone with a IIe motherboard they'd like to
part with cheap? Don't even care if the ROMs are on it, as I have
plenty of them.
Steve
(Time for a drink..)