8T26s

From: Doug Coward <dcoward_at_pressstart.com>
Date: Thu Oct 21 14:01:14 1999

Philip.Belben_at_pgen.com said on the subject of: Re: Tandon TM 100 5 1/4" drives
>Doug, I hope you don't mean you need to replace the chips with broken pins.
>
>This happened to a ROM in my oldest PET when I was trying to reseat it (poor
>contacts in sockets - I eventually replaced them with decent sockets). I
stuck
>a thin piece of metal - a staple, as I recall - into the socket where the pin
>was supposed to go, and soldered it to the stub of the pin. Worked a treat!

 I can understand doing this for a ROM but it's much easier for
me to just go out and buy new-old-stock chips. Here in the Bay area
a few of the electronic surplus stores also have well organized
selections of chips. I stopped this morning at one that's close
to work, Halted Specialities (HSC). The woman behind the counter
had never heard of a 8T-anything and continued to write "AT26"
until I wrote it out for her. But in less than a minute she
returned with a plastic drawer with about 200 in it. I had the
choice between "black" or "white and gold". Sixty eight cents
each and they are all Synertec parts with 1975 date codes.
 A few of these places also have large collections of old data
books that are not for sale, but for customer reference.
--Doug
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Doug Coward
Press Start Inc.
Sunnyvale,CA
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Received on Thu Oct 21 1999 - 14:01:14 BST