Static discharge (1), Apple IIe (0)

["Steven N. Hirsch" <shirsch@adelphia.net>]

Got to love wood heat in the winter...  I managed to static zap my 
beloved IIe this morning.  Symptoms were odd.  It will boot fine, but 
the keyboard spits random (and multibyte) garbage from most keys.

Feeling clever, I swapped in chips one-at-a-time from my only spare IIe. 
 When I got to the "AY" chip on the far right (adjacent to the keyboard 
connector), the behavior changed to single characters - all of them 
incorrect and random...

Next, I swapped in the extra motherboard (after replacing all the chips) 
and, you guessed it, it now produces random single characters.  From (2) 
working IIe's down to zero in less than a half hour.  Whatever was still 
borken on the old motherboard must have destroyed the AY chip.

Anyone have suggstions?  Anyone with a IIe motherboard they'd like to 
part with cheap?  Don't even care if the ROMs are on it, as I have 
plenty of them.

Steve

(Time for a drink..)