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The old Apple IIe’s used suffered from an occasional manufacturing defect that would cause the chips to be slightly disconnected from the main board. The recom
by commandlinefan 7y ago
The old Apple IIe’s used suffered from an occasional manufacturing defect that would cause the chips to be slightly disconnected from the main board. The recommended fix was to pick it up a few inches off the desk and drop it to re-seat the chips.
- cek 7y agoApple ][+ too. In addition those 72x chips would fail with time. We figured out that a can of compressed air was handy. Power on. Wait for machine to freeze. Spray a chip with compressed air to cool it. Try again. If it stayed working it was probably that chip. Thank goodness they were socketed.
- icodestuff 7y agoThat was the Apple III.