Re: Apple iie with switch under case?

[powergs@macgui.com (Sam Latella)]

Okay things just got a little stranger with the switch underneath the Apple
][e case.

I booted the Apple IIe with the switch underneath set to one side and I got
the following at the top of the screen.

Apple SS (two ss intertwined in eash other)... what is this?

Then when I flicked the swich to the otherside.  I got the following.

Apple ][

So how do I know this is a IIE?  It has the symbol //e on the outside of the
case.

I did the self test twice with the switch underneath set to both sides and I
got the following message KERNEL OK

Is this system a total hack?


Michael J. Mahon wrote:
> Sam Latella wrote:
>> I just came across an Apple IIe that has a swich underneath the keyboard.
>>
>> Once you flick the switch it goes from the Apple //e to Apple ][.   The
>> Apple //e looks like it was built in 1982, and the case itself is a
>> little
>> bigger then the other //e I have in use.
>> 
>> Did the IIe case shrink over the years?
>> 
>> Lastly, everytime I boot up this //e with the switch its hard to read the
>> screen... what could be the possible cause, bad board chip?
>> 
>> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>> 
>> Sam
> 
> It seems likely that the machine is a home-built, modded machine.
> 
> The switch controls an address line on the character generator and
> the ROMs (if done properly).  Of course, the rest of the machine is
> a //e, with only the ][(+) ROMs and character generator.
> 
> In fact, it may just switch between enhanced and unenhanced //e...
> 
> In any case, reseating the ROMs and character generator is in order,
> and flipping the switch a hundred times or more to make sure its
> contacts are clean.
> 
> If that doesn't cure it, you'll have to provide more specific
> symptoms.
> 
> -michael
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