Re: My Apple ][+ is now very, very sad...

["Jeff Blakeney" <jeff.blakeney@a2central.com.remove-4au-this>]

  To: winston19842005
On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 22:31:40 -0400, winston19842005 wrote:

> On 7/13/07 10:19 PM, in article
> 4I2dnZr6_Jc-rwXbnZ2dnUVZ_gudnZ2d@comcast.com, "William Garber"
> <willy46pa@garberstreet.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> "John" <john8520@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> 1184377352.084481.34870@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com">news:1184377352.084481.34870@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
>>: This is such a disappointment. After putting in all that time to get
>>: my ][+ nice and clean and looking new, and having spent hours
>>: disassembling and reassembling the keyboard to get it working just
>>: right, it dies on me, mostly dead anyway. At least I got a few days of
>>: fun with it after I cleaned it up.
>>:
>>: Anyway, yesterday afternoon I trekked down to the basement to align
>>: and calibrate my Disk ][s. I turned on the lights, shut off the
>>: dehumidifier (its so loud!) and booted up the ][+. At first I freaked
>>: out because I wasn't getting any video, then I noticed that the
>>: Monitor ][ was just turned off, so I sighed a sigh of relief and
>>: turned it on. And then I started to freak out. I was greeted with a
>>: very icky looking screen, instead of the normal APPLE ][ with the
>>: little ] prompt, I got this:
>>:
>>: http://i12.tinypic.com/6c2xh6p.jpg
>> 
>> Looks like a monitor problem, not with the II+.
>> Possibly horizontal hold. Does it have those
>> types of controls? Most of mine only have vertical
>> controls, which seems minimal. You could also try
>> connecting it to a TV to verify that it is, or isn't,
>> a problem with the monitor.
> 
> I agree with William... The fact that you can see APPLE ][ on the screen...

I'm not sure what the real problem is but it doesn't look like a monitor
problem to me seeing as the lines are confined only to the display area
of the Apple II and don't go into the borders at all.
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