Well, I did more experimentation with the Apple IIs. I decided that, having
one machine that worked fine, I could use it to test the RAM from the other
two. I was surprised to find that of the 48 4116s I tested, nine were
faulty enough that the machine wouldn't boot. My testing wasn't very
thorough, so some may still be bad; on populating the original Apple II
with RAM that seemed OK, it started up OK, but still behaves a bit randomly
(hitting Enter makes random characters appear on the screen, it tends to
suddenly change video modes, and drop into the monitor at times as well).
My real question is - 9 faulty out of 48, spread across both machines,
seems very high. Are 4116s that unreliable? Or perhaps they're quite
sensitive to power supply problems?
Mike.