Re: Hello fellow Apple II owners!

["Tim Haynes" <timhaynes@alumni.NO.SPAM.PLEASE.uwaterloo.ca>]

I wonder if a light acid would work.  Muriatic acid, maybe?

Tim

"Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net> wrote in message
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> "Retrowatcher" <stede.troisi@verizon.net> wrote in message
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> > I am the proud owner of a new (ah, old) apple IIC I just got from ebays.
> I
> > really need some help and hope that the experts here can share some
> advice.
> >
> > 1st, I think the IIC was originally White but now is a light yellow.
Does
> > any retro expert know of any solution to get the white back?
> >
> > 2nd, what are great Apple II sites on the net?
> >
> > and last but certainly not least, I turn the machine on and it is asking
> for
> > a boot disk?  What do I do?
> >
>
> Welcome!  What you need to do is read over the faq:
>
> http://home.swbell.net/rubywand/A2FAQs1START.html
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> I don't think there is any easy way to remove the yellow.  You have to
> remove a layer of plastic with an abrasive type cleanser, so the best
thing
> is to buy another IIc that isn't sunburned.
>
> The faq lists places to find software for your IIc, and methods of getting
> it from the net onto your IIc.  Check out the info on ADT in the faq.
> -Paul
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