Re: Power supply

[Sean McNamara <sean@macassist.com.au>]

Hi Leon,

> I'm trying to get an Apple II europlus going. It turned on once and
> after that, when i flicked the power switch I saw a spark near the
> switch and it tripped my plugs circuit in my office.
> 
> Now it does that every time I flip the switch. How can I fix this?

I recently put a //e power supply in my ][europlus (which I acquired 
without a power supply at all) and it's working fine. I was lucky to see 
an Australian eBay auction for just a //e power supply within a couple 
of weeks of acquiring the europlus! If you can't fix it, you certainly 
have other options for the replacement of it.

> Also, I've looked through the collection of floppy disks and can't
> remember if the actualy DOS is coded into the ROM, or if you need a
> system disk to boot it up.

I wasn't aware any of the Apple ][s had DOS coded in ROM - they've all 
had to use DOS loaded from disks in my experience. Many disks have DOS 
on them, so you don't necessarily need the system masters, just a 
properly formatted DOS disk. You can also use a dump file transferred 
over a serial cable if you don't have any DOS disks.

Hope that's of use

Sean

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