Apple II

I just bought, from an old Apple employee, an NOS Apple ///+, external drive, and monitor ///, along with a bunch of software. The computer and drive have been removed from their boxes to check condition but have never been powered up. The monitor has never been removed from the box.

I'll pick the computer up in a week or two (the next time I'm back in San Jose), but are there any things I should do before putting power to a system this old? A motherboard chip-press or something?

(It would be really nice if the CFFA3000 worked on this system, but I don't think it will...)

I have a 9" monochrome //c A2M4090 monitor that exhibits "tilt". The image "slants" down from left to right, maybe one character height over the width. I'm guessing that this is a problem with the yoke deflection.

I love the tightness of this monitor, but the tilt is driving me a bit buggy. Any recommendations?

I just got a couple of nice Disk ][ drives off eBay-- the first-generation, metal-cased drives with the ribbon cables.

They're both clean and work perfectly, except the second drive won't write-- judging from the error messages I'm getting, it thinks all disks are write-protected. (IO Error 16 and the like).

Otherwise, it's perfect-- I can boot DOS, ProDOS, and Pascal from it with no problem.

I've checked with a multimeter and the write-protect switch seems to work fine, so I guess the problem is electrical. Any ideas?

I won this machine last night from the Goodwill auction site. Any idea what this switch is for? Unfortunately, I only have this photo from the listing until I go pick the machine up - probably later today.

Also there is a pic of the serial #. With what I think is a copyright date of 1989, I am hoping this a ROM 3 machine but I wanted to check the serial # to be sure. I have a feeling someone here knows how to decipher it.

Thanks.