Back in the days when these were made, power supplies were linear, and if the
thing's gone a long time without running, I'd suspect one of the smaller
electrolytic cap's in the PSU or the monitor's sweep circuit. Unfortunately,
these things aren't packaged in a way that makes diagnosis or servicing easy.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cameron Kaiser" <spectre_at_stockholm.ptloma.edu>
To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 10:58 PM
Subject: Re: Recent score: CBM 8032
> > Wow wouldn't mind having one, as they are the grandaddy to the VIC-20
> > and C=64 machines. Some VIC/64 software is directly useable, other
> > software takes minor tweaks. Now you'll need the matching floppy
> > drives, and they use that (typical commodore offbeat) IEEE interface. I
> > guess use the common steps troubleshooting the p/s.
>
> I've got a PET 2001-16B myself, and a C2N datasette. Works great.
>
> To the original poster, yes, the power supply and/or fuse are likely
> suspects. PETs are pretty tough systems.
>
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