On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Mr Ian Primus wrote:
Any ideas?
Does this sound like some bad
memory? How can I diagnose
this?
It's a bad 2114 RAM chip on the video/keyboard interface board. There
are four 2114's on that board, used for video RAM, and one of them has
failed. I forget if they're in sockets or not...
... and when you get that fixed, there's an excellent chance that the
foam pads in the keyboard have disintegrated. My Model II had only 5
working keys when I got it, but I was able to rebuild the keyboard with
the help of this article:
http://www.solivant.com/sol20kbd/
Mike Loewen mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
Old Technology
http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/Oldtech/