My Apple II Restoration Project
Recently I pulled my old Apple II down out of
the attic in order to build the " The Super D'Lux
Shutter Tester ". During development of the Shutter Tester, I replaced
that 25 year old machine with a just slightly more recent Apple
II plus, mostly because of significant problems with the keyboard on
the original Apple II. However a slowly growing interest in
restoring that original Apple II into something approximating an as
delivered configuration has been taking hold of me. This is a
description of the restoration that I am proceeding with.
Parts Still Desired - will purchase for reasonable sum
- Apple II logic board (prior to color killer version, there
should
be no transistor between locations
h-13 and f-13 ). It doesn't have to be working, as I have digital
repair skills. The current board is later version which was
swapped in during a repair in the 80s. I have an old Apple
newsletter that reports the color killer was shipped on units built
after something like serial number 6000. Update - one of these
boards has not shown up at a reasonable price and I've decided to build
a clone. See my recreation pages for more information. I
still wouldn't mind haven't an original, though.
Links to Topics
Below is a picture of the inside of my restored Apple II. I
originally purchased the machine in the spring of 1978. It
includes 1st rev keyboard, A2M001 power supply, rev 0 (replica)
motherboard, integer ROMS, firmware card (with Applesoft ROMs),
original paddles, disk controller and (recent addition) super
serial card. Except for recent additions of the the super serial
card, the second Disk II, and an update to DOS 3.3, it is operating
much like it was back in the late 1970s. I still have the old
software and run programs like Breakout and Dragon Maze on a regular
basis.
