Apple II

Ok, so I have managed to find my way back into the apple collecting hobby accidentally. I have since aquired an Apple IIgs that when I turn it on, I get Fatal System Error 0911. I know that the error has to do with ADB. I am going to try the lightbulb over the ADB chipset trick. I also have checked all the PSU voltages and they are within half a volt. Have I missed anything? The machine in question appears to be a ROM 0 upgraded to ROM 1, and I have tried it without anything else connected, and the memory board removed. Anything else?

Hey, all. I downloaded the 25 GB ZIP file of the ASIMOV Apple II archive off of the Internet Archive. When I go to unzip it, Windows 7 tells me I need 734 PB (as in petabytes, no, that's not a typo) of space to extract it all. Am I doing something horribly wrong, or is this really compressed at a 29.3 million to 1 ratio?

After repairing the PSU and the shorts on the mainboard, everything works fine except some strange misbehaving of the composite video output. First I've had it connected to an 9 inch IIc monochrome monitor, the color killer switch on the PAL mainboard was switched to MONO. The picture quality wasn't great at all out of the IIe compared to the output of my IIc connected to the same monitor - but was getting better after a few minutes of warming up. So I can rule out the monitor itself.

After reading David Finnigan's New Apple II User's Guide, I've decided to revieve my dad's old IIe. I remember, back when I was a kid, this was his most priced possession, quite litarally. I've grown up in the Russian occupied part of Germany and at this time in the 80's, computers - especially Apple II's - were pretty much not accessable for people or insanely expensive.