My Apple III is complete! I wasn’t sure I was ever going to find a 9 key for it. But the gaping hole is now plugged. Combined with a proper Monitor III it’s looking good.
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A very noisy purple-and-green error screen from the computer starting up with bad RAM.
New blog post! The Apple III was perhaps the most unloved machine of Apple's early-80s losing streak, but that doesn't mean this one should have been used as a toilet for mice. Just how bad can it get? #retrocomputing #apple2 #apple3 […]
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New blog post! The Apple III was perhaps the most unloved machine of Apple's early-80s losing streak, but that doesn't mean this one should have been used as a toilet for mice. Just how bad can it get? #retrocomputing #apple2 #apple3
www.leadedsolder.com/2025/10/28/a...
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An Apple III 12v memory board. Eight sockets are filled with gold MK4332 DRAMs and another eight are empty because they have all failed a memory test. For some reason my legs are at the bottom of the shot.
That is a lot of bad MK4332s! At least it's a nice round number. #apple3 #apple2 #retrocomputing
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The Apple III is back together. I’m really happy I was able to save this rare bird & add it to my collection. It has come a long way from a disgusting feces filled bio hazard. Maybe one day I’ll find a replacement “9” key and monitor for it.
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The keyboard is fixed. A good dose a contact cleaner brought the “S” key back. But the “K” needed a little open heart surgery to bring it back. But all keys check out on the keyboard now. Time to re-assemble this rare beast.
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Good news! The keyboard is working and everything else checks out on the Apple III. BUT I have two dead keys – “S” and “K”. Let’s see if they can be saved.
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“I’m OK. Machine status normal” – HA! Too funny. 😆
But good news for this Apple III.
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Apple III back on the bench. Got my replacement keyboard controller from @museumjoe.bsky.social time to see if it alone does the trick or if there’s more to the no keyboard problem.
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The Apple III repair is on pause. Last thing is the keyboard. All looks good on the board and the circuitry but the controller chip has bad voltages coming out of it. Talking with @MuseumJoe looks to be a bad chip. So replacement on order.
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Apple III keyboard all cleaned up. Anyone have a numpad “9” they want to part with?
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IT’S ALIVE!!! WOW! First power up of the Apple III and no errors it started right up. Even the drive appears to be working. But as suspected no keyboard. I’ll have to check the board but a good chance that keyboard controller chip is bad.
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Every chip pulled, socket cleaned, and chip reseated on the Apple III. That was a lot of socketed chips and several felt loose, so I might be going back to replace quite a few. The legs on that keyboard controller chip are in bad shape.
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What totally normal computer stuff are you doing today? I’m washing out mouse feces from my Apple III with the garden hose in the backyard.
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We have dates. May 1982–midlife of the Apple III. What was Apple thinking with this massive chunk of aluminum for the body. Did they think this was the future of their computers? Were they going to invest in aluminum foundries next.
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PSU looks good. But we have some cracked Rifas that need to come off. Drive looks good but the motor or spindle are a little scratchy. Keyboard is well dirty to say the least.
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Good news there’s a board in there. It is dirty and grimy. Definitely want to wash it down before getting too involved with it after finding those mouse dropping all in this Apple III. That chip looks like trouble.
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Oh Yuck! We have mouse droppings. Well that’s a first for a rescue. Guess it time to mask and glove up for the rest of the teardown and clean.
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Starting the teardown, the Apple III is pretty dirty. Unfortunately the 9 key on the numpad is broken off and missing. Otherwise it looks good and appears to be an upgraded 256k model.
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OH WOW!!! A Pickup from the dream list. An Apple III. Never thought I’d come across one of these for the collection. Time to go binge some of @museumjoe.bsky.social videos to get up to speed what to expect.
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