BuckraBoy Posted September 26, 2023 Share Posted September 26, 2023 Having an issue with a recently purchased IIc where, after dropping into BASIC it will continually generate blank characters (spaces presumably) before generating a \ character then starting a new line and rinsing and repeating after that. Running built in diagnostics passes with System OK. Have tried with a known-good keyboard, IOU, CHAR GEN and MAP chips. Board looks to be clean with no signs of damaged traces etc. Anyone got any idea what could cause this? I can only think that perhaps the keyboard encoder is bad? It's soldered in and my test equipment is pretty much limited to a multimeter. Cheers Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/355180-apple-iic-continually-generating-characters-spaces-mostly-then-a-then-newlines-and-repeats/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuckraBoy Posted November 10, 2023 Author Share Posted November 10, 2023 Turns out this was a faulty keyboard encoder encoder chip. Piggybacked another one that i stole from my faulty Apple IIe Platinum on the top of the existing chip and the issue went away. Now just need to unsolder the faulty keyboard encoder, pop in a socket and drop in the replacement that i got from Joe's Computer Museum's Shop. Then i just need to sort out the faulty memory issue on the same machine to finally get it fully up and working again. Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/355180-apple-iic-continually-generating-characters-spaces-mostly-then-a-then-newlines-and-repeats/#findComment-5346422 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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