Ancestors

Written by Richard Troupe on 2024-12-01 at 11:00

Well, look at what has arrived...

Courtesy of @nivrig, I have now acquired a very dirty Apple IIe.

This was rescued from a skip and the photos don't do the grime and dirt justice.

[#]apple #apple2 #appleii

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Written by Richard Troupe on 2024-12-01 at 11:04

The power supplies in these old computers should always be recapped but...

I wanted to know if it had any other issues and I like to live dangerously.

Oh.

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Toot

Written by Richard Troupe on 2024-12-01 at 11:05

RIFAs go boom.

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Descendants

Written by Richard Troupe on 2024-12-01 at 11:07

Time for a clean until the replacement caps arrive.

Absolutely stankin'.

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Written by Richard Troupe on 2024-12-01 at 11:08

The big job is cleaning the keyboard keys which are absolutely disgusting and covered in a grimy crust.

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Written by Richard Troupe on 2024-12-01 at 11:11

The replacement capacitors arrive and it's time to solder them to the PSU.

The PSU is now back into the case of the Apple IIe.

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Written by Richard Troupe on 2024-12-01 at 11:11

Key caps back on as well!

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Written by Richard Troupe on 2024-12-01 at 11:16

Annnnnnnnd.... It works!

Well sort of! The Apple IIe now boots and is far cleaner than it previously was, however the keyboard absolutely does not work apart from pressing CTRL+RESET together which seems to reset the cursor onscreen.

A pin on the keyboard ribbon cable connector also broke off when trying to diagnose the issue but it had the issue before that occurred.

Any advice please?

[#]appleii #macintosh #apple

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Written by 48kRAM on 2024-12-01 at 13:51

@richardtroupe Apparently this chip likes to die in the kbd

https://jcm-1.com/product/jcm-universal-keyboard-encoder/

@MuseumJoe can confirm?

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Written by Richard Troupe on 2024-12-01 at 14:36

@48kRAM @MuseumJoe Excellent! Thank you... I thought that it might have been the keyboard encoder. Unfortunately that one is out of stock but I've signed up for stock notification.

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Written by Joe's Computer Museum on 2024-12-01 at 22:05

@richardtroupe @48kRAM OOH - I'll get restocked as soon as I can.

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