27 May
1997
27 May
'97
3:52 p.m.
On Tue, 27 May 1997, Eric Fischer wrote:
more(a)camlaw.rutgers.edu said,
Just for "fun" I did this and some interesting things happened...
1. The garbage disappeared and "Apple //e" was printed at the top and the
drive 1 light came on. I put in the first disk I grabbed and it came up
with the message "Unable to Identify Language in MotherBoard E0 ROM.
PLease replace that ROM and Reboot." What's this mean?
2. Hit escape again and got a ] prompt which someone said was a Basic
prompt. Mad a stupid basic proggy, ran it, it worked.
3. Tried the reset-esc thing again but this time found a DOS 3.3 disk.
DOS 3.3 APPLE II PLUS OR ROMCAERD aetc.etcetc. was printed...
It come s up withthe ] prompt again. Is this what its supposed to do?
Is there nothing wrong with this thing then?
Could it be something stupid? (wrong thing in wrong slot?)
Opening the iie up I find:
CPU has been replaced (?) with a ZIPCHIP 4 (?)
This is a 4MHz accelerator that replaces the original 1MHz CPU.
If I'm remembering right, you hold down the ESC key while turning
the power on to configure what speed you want to run it at.
This is probably another 80-column card, but the old II+ style
instead of the newer IIe Aux style. The M and A almost certainly
are the "monitor" and "apple" plugs; you should probably run another
Should I take one of the video cards out? Are they supposed to BOTH be in
there?
If you'd like to just swap the motherboard for one
that definitely
works, I have a spare one. Let me know if you could use it.
If something truly is wrong with it then by all means, yes, I am
interested...
Thanks,
Les