Bill Garber wrote:
I already told him that if he is seeing the checkerboard pattern that the cpu is not getting power. It is the same on all Apple IIs. Take out your cpu and turn it on. You'll see what he is getting.
It isn't the same on all Apple IIs. You're describing what happens in an autostart machine. With my non autostart machines the only difference between what I get on screen is that when the processor is present I get a the monitor prompt at the bottom of that checkerboard pattern Wayne