Re: Faulty Apple IIe

[david@uow.edu.au (David Wilson)]

dalloff@gcfn.org (Dave Althoff Jr) writes:
>One word of warning with the //c (does not apply to the ][e, so far as I
>know)...when I pulled the RAM, I installed sockets and put the new RAM
>into the sockets.  It worked great until I put the case back together,
>then it didn't work.  I took one screw out of the case, it worked great.

>What I discovered is that ONE of the RAM chips was shorting against the
>shield on the bottom of the disk drive because of the extra height
>provided by the new socket.  I put a piece of electrical tape over that
>chip, and now the machine works fine. 

Indeed... Use as low profile a socket as you can lay your hands on when
socketing the //c RAM chips.
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David Wilson  School of IT & CS, Uni of Wollongong, Australia