Re: Weird video on Apple IIc

[Cowgod <cowgod@rockpile.com>]

> 
> macrl@pantheon.yale.edu (Ryan L Macarthur) wrote:
> 
> >It's the normal "Apple //c" screen when the power's
> >turned on, but there are a couple of rapidly blinking @ symbols staying
> >in the same place on the screen.  After the disk drive reads the first
> >track or two on any disk I put in and crashes out (for example, the ProDOS
> >1.0.1 or "David-DOS" header will appear on the screen, and then the drive
> >starts screaming bloody murder... I'm thinking maybe it's the drive,
> >maybe it's another symptom of a deeper problem, I can't tell until I hook
> >up an external drive and try booting off that), the symbols are still there,
> >and when I hit CR the @ symbols start forming a column up the screen:
> 
> >               @
> >               @
> >        @      @
> >        @
> >        @      @
> >        @      *
> >        @
> >        *
> 
> >where the *'s are the rapidly flashing @ signs, and the ones that scroll
> >up the screen are normal.  Applesoft BASIC seems to work fine, and as the
> >screen is filled with text, text that is scrolled up past the flashing
> >@'s will be changed to a different character.

I seem to recall something similar happening when the internal drive on
my //c died...

Tom "Cowgod" Greene
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