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This gallery shows some stages of cleaning the computer Apple IIe and the Apple Monitor ///.

I have also made minor repairs which i describe below:

• Fixing the keyboard connector on keyboard side (some keys not working)
• Adjusting the yoke of the CRT tube (the screen is lightly rotated)
• Replaced the LED of power-on (CR1) of the Apple IIe (LED was off)
• Removing the RIFA filter capacitor (the capacitor was exploded)

Autopsy:

from Wikipedia:

The Apple Monitor /// was a green phosphor CRT-based monochrome monitor manufactured by Apple Computer for the Apple III personal computer, introduced in 1980.

As Apple’s first monitor in their business line of machines, it preceded the Apple Monitor II by several years. The Apple Monitor ///’s main feature was the coating on the CRT to reduce glare. The Apple Monitor /// was also compatible with the Apple II+, Apple IIe, Apple IIc, and even the later models: the Apple IIc+, and the Apple IIgs through its composite video output jack.

source: wikipedia

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from Wikipedia:

The Disk II Floppy Disk Subsystem, often spelled as Disk ][, was a 5¼-inch floppy disk drive designed by Steve Wozniak and manufactured by Apple Computer. It was first introduced in 1978 at a retail price of US$495 for pre-order; it was later sold for $595 including the controller card (which can control up to two drives) and cable. The Disk II was designed specifically for use with the Apple II personal computer family to replace the slower cassette tape storage and cannot be used with any Macintosh computer without an Apple IIe Card as doing so will damage the drive and/or controller.

Apple produced at least six variants of the basic 5¼-inch Disk II concept over the course of the Apple II series’ lifetime: The Disk II, the Disk III, the DuoDisk, the Disk IIc, the UniDisk 5.25″ and the Apple 5.25 Drive. While all of these drives look different and they use four different connector types, they’re all electronically extremely similar, can all use the same low-level disk format, and are all interchangeable with the use of simple adapters, consisting of no more than two plugs and some wires between them. Most DuoDisk drives, the Disk IIc, the UniDisk 5.25″ and the AppleDisk 5.25″ even use the same 19-pin D-Sub connector, so they are directly interchangeable. The only 5.25″ drive Apple sold aside from the Disk II family was a 360k MFM unit made to allow Mac IIs and SEs to read PC floppy disks.

This is not the case with Apple’s 3.5″ drives, which use several different disk formats and several different interfaces, electronically quite dissimilar even in models using the same connector, and are not generally interchangeable.

source: wikipedia

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from Wikipedia:

The Apple IIe (styled as Apple //e) is the third model in the Apple II series of personal computers produced by Apple Computer. The e in the name stands for enhanced, referring to the fact that several popular features were now built-in that were only available as upgrades and add-ons in earlier models. It also improved upon expandability and added a few new features, which, all combined, made it very attractive to first-time computer shoppers as a general-purpose machine. The Apple IIe has the distinction of being the longest-lived computer in Apple’s history, having been manufactured and sold for nearly 11 years with relatively few changes.

Apple had planned to retire the Apple II series after the introduction of the Apple III in 1980; after that machine turned out to be a disastrous failure, management decided the further continuation of the Apple II was in the company’s best interest. So after three and a half years at a stand-still, came the introduction of a new Apple II model — the Apple IIe (codenamed “Diana” and “Super II”). The Apple IIe was released in January 1983, the successor to the Apple II Plus. Some of the hardware and software features of the Apple III were borrowed in the design of the Apple IIe. The culmination of these changes led to increased sales and greater market share of both home and small business use.

One of the most notable improvements of the Apple IIe is the addition of a full ASCII character set and keyboard. The most important addition is the ability to input and display lower-case letters. Other keyboard improvements include four-way cursor control and standard editing keys (Delete and Tab), two special Apple modifier keys (Open and Solid Apple), and a safe off-to-side relocation of the “Reset” key. The auto-repeat function (any key held down to repeat same character continuously) is now automatic, no longer requiring the “REPT” key (now gone) found on the previous model’s keyboard.

source: wikipedia