30 Apr
2013
30 Apr
'13
3:40 p.m.
On 04/29/2013 08:33 PM, Mike van Bokhoven wrote:
No problems, glad it helped!
Again without much confidence in my
memory, I think the IIe runs its self-test if there's no keyboard
attached. However, that's more regular-looking (and sounding) than what
you're describing, and should end with the message "KERNEL OK" after a
minute or so. Still, see what happens when the KB is done I guess...
It's alive! It does indeed need the keyboard to be plugged in before it'll
boot to BASIC (with the SSC board that was inside it plugged in, it sits
there until I hit ctrl-reset, but I expect that's down to board config and
it's sitting there in serial terminal mode).
I'm not sure why the self-test didn't seem to be doing anything useful;
maybe I should just leave it running for a while and see if it does
anything (unless anyone happens to know what the key sequence is for
invoking the self-test via the keyboard?).
I'll put it on the to-do list to try and find a monitor for it (it works
great with my big LCD TV, but it'd be nice to have something vintage to
live with it permanently - although I did get an Applecolor RGB CRT with
the IIgs machines, but I have a feeling that doesn't support composite
video input).
Oh, there's a disk II controller board in there too, but there was no sign
at the dump of any drives :-( So, I should probably try and source a drive
for it at some point as well (I *may* still have one in storage over in the
UK, but it probably went with the Apple III that I had)
cheers
Jules