The monitor seems to interact with the drives when the monitor is turned on. It
depends, I suppose, on the monitor, but I've got the IIe with the dual drive box
between it and the color monitor and from time to time, e.g. when I turn on the
monitor while the computer has been powered up but the monitor has been powered
down, e.g. when I go upstairs to get a sandwich or answer the doorbell, the
drive runs up and the diskette is partially unreadable afterward.
I'm told by more experienced Apple owners that it's a good idea to (a) ground
the disk drive boxes in the case of the old aluminum-cased Apple][ drives and
(b) put a sheet of grounded ferrous metal between the monitor and drives. I
don't know whether this helps, as I've simply stopped turning off the monitor
when I go away.
Apparently one of the guys got a metal bracket of the sort sometimes used to set
a printer off the desk, and set his monitor on it in order to lift the thing up
so he didn't have to crane his neck down to see the display, and his problems
with the disk drives were diminished, which caused him to investigate.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Glen Goodwin" <acme_ent_at_bellsouth.net>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 9:07 PM
Subject: Stacking Apple ][ stuff
> Richard Erlacher wrote:
>
> > if you
> > were foolish enough to set the Apple up as shown in numerous
> installations, with
> > the monitor atop the 2 FDD's and that pair atop the Apple box, your disk
> > subsystem gave you what they (Apple Computer Co) figured you deserved.
>
> Proud new owner of Apple ][e (my first Apple product) wants to know:
> what's wrong with stacking the drive unit and display on top of the box?
>
> Glen
> 0/0
>
>
Received on Mon Nov 05 2001 - 22:51:48 GMT