Reply 11800 of 28625, by Merovign
According to the internet, nobody else has ever had a problem with an Apple II+ rear RF shield being stuck and preventing removal of the cover, but that's fine.
Also nobody needs to disassemble one, the instructions I found were wrong and I found three disassembly videos that magically skipped the disassembly part.
Is the internet literally getting less useful or is it just me?
It's full of expansion cards and it looks like one of them is a video card but some **** cut the cable off at the edge of the case, of course.
I'm just trying to clean it out so another black widow doesn't crawl out of it in the middle of the night. Never easy.
Huh.
I thought that might have been an HD video cable, but from the card I'm guessing it's some kind of custom disk or tape interface, though the system had an Apple dual disk controller as well. Could be almost anything, it's labeled "Creative Computers c.1982 003L" and "AV-I-1182". It almost looks handmade, the traces might be hand-drawn, the edge connector is one-sided... it's just a bunch of logic gates. The external connector is 12 pins and it has a ribbon cable, it basically intercepts the keyboard. Oh, it's probably a keyboard controller, it suddenly occurs to me. They made a number of external keyboards for special purposes. 12 pins seems like a lot, though.
The power supply is quite clean inside, surprisingly. I think it's clear of bugs, gonna pull the keyboard and check/clean and then be done for the night. Will get some more pictures later. Will probably not have time to function test tomorrow. Maybe.
*Too* *many* *things*!