Re: help resurrect an Apple ][

[u901841@student.canberra.edu.au (Hickey / Michael Gerard (ISE))]

In article <CnJn8D.Kox@crash.cts.com> shack@crash.cts.com (Randy
Shackelford) writes: 

>Well I just received an Apple ][ in the mail. As in original Apple ][, the one 
>before the ][+ even. The thing is it's missing a memory chip. Trying to track  
>down a 16K memory chip has been futile so far. Can anyone who used to have an  
>old ][ or ][+ help? As it came, it would turn on and beep but there was no     
>video. I tried removing an entire bank of chips, which got it where it would   
>flash a screen of question marks on the screen before going blank. Does anyone
>know if you have to change anything on the logic board when installing or      
>removing memory? 

Yes ! See below

>Does the memory start at the front row and go back or at the
>back row and go forward? Better yet, does anyone have any of the right kind of
>memory chips around or know of any? It will be really cool if I can get this
>fossil up and running.
>--
>Randy Shackelford                                "That's right, keep dancing
>shack@crash.cts.com                               on the minefield"
>                                                                  -Al Bundy


Hi Randy, How goes it across the ditch?