Re: Apple /// broken?

[KP <kjpmail@gmail.com>]

On Jul 23, 3:22 pm, David Schmidt <schmi...@my-deja.com> wrote:
> On 7/23/2012 3:03 PM, KP wrote:
>
> > Yesterday, I turned on an Apple /// for the first time.  Nothing
> > showed up on the Monitor ///, which did have its red "power" light
> > on.  The /// "on" light was on, and the built-in disk drive briefly
> > whirred before going quiet.  I turned the machine off and waited
> > several seconds.  I then turned the machine back on again.  This time,
> > and on subsequent attempts, there was no disk drive noise.  Instead,
> > the "on" light went on but nothing showed up on the screen and it just
> > sat there very quietly.
>
> > Thoughts?  Is it dead?  Can it be resurrected?
>
> It's pinin' for the fjords.
>
> What it needs is a good chip reseating.  (No, don't drop it.)  You can
> try the cheap way by taking the top cover off and pushing down on all
> the chips you can get to.  But to do it properly, you need to drop the
> pan and carefully disconnect the connectors in place in order to isolate
> the board.  Then you can get at everything... the memory riser is
> especially challenging, but again maybe you'll get lucky and the problem
> will be elsewhere.  Just try mushing down on each chip and then powering
> back up.

Not familiar with the "fjords" expression.  Do you mean it's dead?

Could I have destroyed it if it got tilted (gently tilted, just in the
carrying process--not violently) 270 degrees or even 360 degrees when
we moved it?