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Still have my Apple ][ with manuals, etc. (also in my attic), but I'm not sure what would happen if I powered it up.

Btw, not a typo above. Not ][+, not //, not //e. Apple ][, serial number 79. IIRR, it even has the floating point ROM card in one of the slots. :-)

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Apple IIs are surprisingly hardy but with one exception: there's a Rifa-branded line filter capacitor in the power supply that tends to blow but it's easy enough to replace (some say you can even just remove it).

That's exactly the capacitor that blew for the author in the article.

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