adric22 wrote:
>>Success!  It's trying to boot a (non-existent) disk.  Reset (or, more
>>likely, Control-reset) will break out of the boot sequence which will
>>otherwise go on indefinitely.  If you still can't get reset to work,
>>then yank the Disk II card out and turn the machine on - you will be
>>faced with the Applesoft prompt.
> 
> 
> Well, I already know it will boot to the BASIC prompt without the card
> installed.  I've been playing in BASIC for a few hours like that
> already.   But control-reset will definitely not do anything.  Not
> here, not ever.

The reset circuit is just two keyswitches and the keyboard connectors,
so if it doesn't work, check those for dirt/bad contacts.

>  I even got stuck in one of my own basic programs.
> Turns out control-C won't break out of a GET statement (kind of weird)
> on an Apple II.

That's normal--GET is supposed to "get" any character, even a
ctl-C.

>  I tried and tried to reset the thing, every
> combination possible.  Eventually had to power it off and back on.

Yep, that's normal if you didn't program a way to escape the GET loop.

-michael

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