matsondawson wrote:I bought bunch of 65c02s a while back, you can get them on ebay fairly cheap.
I'll look at prices when I get home.
It looks the same as when my 2 plus cpu was dead.
tezza wrote:The CPU would be a good place to start. But, yes a scope and a logic probe would be useful tools to get if you intent to maintain a collection of computers. You have a multimeter? You could check if the CPU is getting the right voltage, and if the reset pin is working etc.
Gibsaw wrote:I see you ended up buying the other Apple IIe as well. I really hope the guy is not as much of a clown as his question responses indicate.
Assuming for a second that it goes and is an "enhanced", the 65C02, if gently levered out very gently (and evenly.) would provide at least a useful test. Actually even a 6502B would provide useful information. It'll fail to boot due to firmware problems, but it might answer the dead-cpu question.
mrad01 wrote:Nice little update...
I've ordered 5x 65C02 processors which should be here next week. I probably only need one or two, so if anyone needs one - sing out.
mrad01 wrote:It looks like the auction I won last week ended up having 5+ Apple II computers with screens and floppy drives in it - the seller is clearing out a 12 bay shed and told me that anything which has an Apple on it will come along in the crate. Hopefully I didn't just buy a box of duds! It will be very interesting - I'll let you all know of the outcome of that one.
mrad01 wrote:...a screen full of random looking characters with HGR lines and dots moving onscreen....
matsondawson wrote:It looks the same as when my 2 plus cpu was dead.
Gibsaw wrote:Yeah, it'd be great to see what came out of that... and, if there was (ahem) a spare power supply around, I'd be willing to buy that too. (I had a blonde moment hastily demonstrating machines that culminated in a reasonably graphic illustration of the difference between 230v and a 110v. Surprisingly the machine got all the way to the DOS3.3 prompt before the power supply went bang. )
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