17 Jun
2000
17 Jun
'00
9:46 p.m.
In a message dated 6/17/00 9:25:28 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
eric(a)brouhaha.com writes:
powering
Hmm, that
actually sounds a bit familiar. I kind of think I vaguely
remember
reading magazine articles in the early 80s about
the /// being
discontinued
and then re-introduced in "new &
improved" form. But I wouldn't know...
The Apple ///+. Very short product life.
Was the /// the machine whose user manual
suggested that you should drop
the
> entire computer on a desk from a height of several inches before it
not only that, but the memory board is mounted above the main board on metal
standoffs with no other support. (at least on the 256k /// i had) Over the
years, that board had become permanetly warped due to sagging in the middle
and the attachment screws being overtorqued.
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on the first time, to give all the internal
connectors a chance to chew
through the oxide? Wild...
Not in the user manual, but some people did it. The problem was that Apple
used bargain-basement DIP sockets on the early machines. In shipping the
chips would work loose. Back then there shouldn't yet have been too much
trouble with oxidation, but there certainly is now. The "correct" fix is
obviously to open it up and reseat the ICs.