Re: Static discharge (1), Apple IIe (0)

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"Steven N. Hirsch" <shirsch@adelphia.net> wrote in message
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: 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.

You came to the right place. Do you want a 1982
unenhanced board, a 1984 enhanced, or a 1986
enhanced?  What do you consider cheap? These are
spares I have accumulated over the past couple
years. I will fully test this motherboard before
shipping it. Email me to work out the details.

Thanks,

Apple II Forever, Apple II Together
Bill @ GarberStreet Enterprizez
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Email - willy46pa@comcast.net