1771 floppy controller questions

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Fri Nov 23 18:02:29 2001

On Fri, 23 Nov 2001, Tothwolf wrote:

> On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Tony Duell wrote:
>
> > > At the time I thought the particular lead might have not been used, and or
> > > someone damaged it when installing the chip. I had never seen a chip with
> >
> > IIRC, the DRAMs in the model 3 are 16K * 1 4116s or similar. All the pins
> > are used on these chips. If a pin is missing, then you are going to have
> > problems...
>
> I wonder if it would be worth soldering a new pin to what's left of that
> chip's lead? It looked like it had just corroded off, but with no other
> signs of moisture, I was kinda puzzled.

Why not? You might want to checkout the socket pretty thoroughly,
though.
                                                 - don
Received on Fri Nov 23 2001 - 18:02:29 GMT