On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, Tony Duell wrote:
> The 2114 is getting hard to find now. A few companies still have them in
> stock, but AFAIK it's no longer in production.
Ack! I need a bunch of these to get a PET 2001 going (all of the 6550s
are bad, and I was told that the 2114 is the same part?) and a VIC 3K RAM
Expander fixed.
I have an S-100 16K card that's full of the things, but I'd rather keep
them in there.
> I've found the 2114 to be the least reliable chip I have ever used. I've
> had a lot of them fail - address lines 'dropping off' mostly. I had to
> change the entire set in my CBM 8050 drive (no other faults) and the 2
> video RAMs in my TRS-80 model 3.
Is there anything else that they can be easily replaced with? With some
minor hacking that doesn't modify the computer in any major way?
I think some VIC-20s have 2114s in them, but I'm not going to go
murdering perfectly good VICs just to get these parts. (And VIC-20s,
unlike C64s, always work when I bring them home from the Salvation Army,
so I don't even have a single 'parts' VIC.)
It looks like about time I did something about my personal 2114 shortage.
> -tony
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Received on Mon Nov 16 1998 - 04:39:51 GMT