Apple II

When testing my SilenType, it has no line feed. Before I dig into this, if the motor is dead, is that part available at all?

Mine is an early unit, around serial 4000. I am going to try it with a second interface card before testing the motor in any other way. The old Apple Service docs are pretty vague on this topic, but I know that the rollers work, so it must be the motor, the internal controller interfsce to the motor, or the main controller card--this last one happens to be on the Apple Service list of possible defects for no LF, so don't laugh. 

Hi y'all -

Back when I was a kid my first computer was an Apple II+ and I had an Echo II speech card for it. Somewhere along the way I picked up a IIe and traded away the II+. Thought I had kept the Echo II but when I dug the IIe out of my parents garage on a recent visit just before the pandemic hit I could not find it so seems not. 

Being a bit of a hardware hacker, and I been lurking here a long time so I know there are plenty of y'all who are way more knowledgable than I, I got it in my head I should try and make my own Echo II clone. 

Does anybody know off hand where the boot message text lives.  That is where is the APPLE ][ or Apple //e or ACE 1000 vx.x message text stored.   I'm thinking about getting a ROM-X and mulling over some ideas. As I recall it was clear text ASCII in the ][ Plus but was mildly encrypted in the //e so copyright infringement was easier to detect after the Franklin court ruling. I wonder if the Laser 128 was the same or if it moved in the "clean room" ROM?

I was recently "gifted" an Apple IIe Platinum -- with a dead power supply, and every single slot empty. 

The power supply had significant damage to it (likely from whoever owned it previously replacing the fuse on the AC side with a piece of 14-gauge wire) and had the 6-pin motherboard power plug clipped off.