Re: Apple //e will not boot--Help

["Barry Davis" <bdavis1943@hotmail.com>]

Wayne,

I should have mentioned in my first message that when I do a self test I get
the "System OK."  If you have any other thoughts, I would really appreciate
them.  I just got tired of the IBM and wanted to go back to the Apple II and
have some fun.  It has a personality.  Thanks  Barry



"Wayne Stewart" <waynes@telus.dotnet> wrote in message
news:puPYa.49754$LD6.1077001@news0.telusplanet.net...
>
>
> Barry Davis wrote:
> > I recently purchased an Apple //e (A2S2064 with an extended 80-column
card)
> > and I am not able to boot the machine.  I have tried two different
> > controller cards (655-0101-B) with two 5.25 apple drives (A9M0107) and a
> > duodisk drive (A9M0108) in all different combinations.  I have tried
Apple
> > Presents, DOS 3.3 System Master, and the ProDOS User's Disk.  Several
times
> > in booting the DOS 3.3 disk, it partially loaded and then stopped when
> > trying to bload "loader.obj0" followed with a I/O Error.  But for the
most
> > part the drives just spin away with only the Apple //e on the screen.  I
> > have cleaned the cards' contacts and tried slot 5 and 7, but to no
avail.
> >
> > I used an Apple II plus and then a //e extensively in the early to
middle
> > 80's, but I have forgotten it all and I am starting at scratch.  Any
help
> > would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks.
>
> First try the self test. The easiest way to do that is to hold down the
> right hand apple key while powering up.
>
> Wayne
>




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