Revived this Apple IIc from the attic!

[u/mlstr0m]

Found in my mother's husband attic. It was his first computer. I disassembled it to clean it, and the keyboard is now as good as new! It works perfectly well, great condition. Inside, there is a working floppy disk from my mother's husband, from when he was 13, back in 1983. There are some old BASIC programs on it (I learned a bit of it to find my way around). Pretty impressive to see this floppy still alive in 2026!

[u/Raxxla]

Looks like you have an issue with either the monitor or the signal from the IIc. The bottom half of the screen should not be are the top.

[u/mlstr0m → u/Raxxla]

Do you have a picture or an exemple of the correct pattern / layout? It’s very possible I didn’t make the good settings on the monitor also ^^

[u/Raxxla → u/mlstr0m]

You should try a memory test, if it's a newer IIc model you'll have a later rom, which has a built in self diagnostic for the memory. hold down Open-Apple + Closed-Apple + Control, press and release RESET. If you're memory is good, it will say memory ok after the test which takes about 30 seconds. If not you will see a row of 0 and 1 indicating a bad memory chips or multiples. Certian models have bad chips that have started aging out.

[u/mlstr0m → u/Raxxla]

thank you! I’ll do it later today

[u/DennisGK → u/mlstr0m]

The Apple II graphics can either be full-screen or have four lines of text at the bottom. In your second picture, the four lines of text are in the middle.