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

[winston19842005 <bjjlyates@bellsouth.net>]

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...

It really looks like a monitor issue. Try "whacking" it around a little, or
hooking up to a TV like Wm said...

Check the controls - a TRS-80 does this if the brightness is too high or the
contrast.