billdeg
Technician
Hello.
I am much more familiar with Commodores, IBM, and TRS 80's, but I came across an Apple IIe and I thought that I'd see if I could get it up and running. I need some help diagnosing why the computer does not load programs from diskette.
Here is where I am now, anyone with advice, please forward to me here or billdeg@aol.com
1) cleaned the computer carefully, basically in good shape
2) opened unit, verified connections of internal cards to cables and cable connections to disk drives, etc..
In addition to what I believe to be the standard stuff that came with the computer:
a) There is also what appears to be a SCSI card The card has a scsi cable that terminates with an end that has a female scsi port with a scsi number dial and a light (lights up).
b) There is a memory expansion card
c) there is a hayes modem card.
d) there is a toggle switch on the back of the computer
3) I inserted a bootable disk (I have a few)
4) turned on comptuer - drive 1 lights up, spins, nothing happens. The drive keeps spining and the drive light stays on until I power off the computer. Drive 2 does nothing. I have swapped the cables and drives. I can make "drive 2 act like drive 1" if I switch things around. I believe that the cables therefore are OK. I have also swapped out the disk drive controller card with another same type card, same exact results.
5) upon power on the screen displays Apple ][
6) By playing with key combinations, I was able to get to some kind of prompt when pressing [apple + solid apple + control + reset], but I don't know what I can do from this prompt.
I have about 25 programs on diskette, some appear to be bootable, I assume at least one of them works, but I was unable to get any program to start on this computer from disk.
How do I diagnose the condition of this computer?
Is there an internal diagnostic?
How do I get a program to run from diskette?
What's wrong typically when a disk drive spins but nothing happens?
I would be happy to send a set of digital pictures to anyone interested in helping.
Thanks!
Bill
Wilmington, Delaware usa
I am much more familiar with Commodores, IBM, and TRS 80's, but I came across an Apple IIe and I thought that I'd see if I could get it up and running. I need some help diagnosing why the computer does not load programs from diskette.
Here is where I am now, anyone with advice, please forward to me here or billdeg@aol.com
1) cleaned the computer carefully, basically in good shape
2) opened unit, verified connections of internal cards to cables and cable connections to disk drives, etc..
In addition to what I believe to be the standard stuff that came with the computer:
a) There is also what appears to be a SCSI card The card has a scsi cable that terminates with an end that has a female scsi port with a scsi number dial and a light (lights up).
b) There is a memory expansion card
c) there is a hayes modem card.
d) there is a toggle switch on the back of the computer
3) I inserted a bootable disk (I have a few)
4) turned on comptuer - drive 1 lights up, spins, nothing happens. The drive keeps spining and the drive light stays on until I power off the computer. Drive 2 does nothing. I have swapped the cables and drives. I can make "drive 2 act like drive 1" if I switch things around. I believe that the cables therefore are OK. I have also swapped out the disk drive controller card with another same type card, same exact results.
5) upon power on the screen displays Apple ][
6) By playing with key combinations, I was able to get to some kind of prompt when pressing [apple + solid apple + control + reset], but I don't know what I can do from this prompt.
I have about 25 programs on diskette, some appear to be bootable, I assume at least one of them works, but I was unable to get any program to start on this computer from disk.
How do I diagnose the condition of this computer?
Is there an internal diagnostic?
How do I get a program to run from diskette?
What's wrong typically when a disk drive spins but nothing happens?
I would be happy to send a set of digital pictures to anyone interested in helping.
Thanks!
Bill
Wilmington, Delaware usa