11/44 scare

From: John Lawson <jpl15_at_panix.com>
Date: Sat Nov 9 10:42:00 2002

On Sat, 9 Nov 2002, John Allain wrote:


[snippage] including "+ A D 4 -" evil sprites still haunting your
character conversion doo-hickey. ;}

>
> Wonder what killed it? Did you have to uncable before
> shipping? These things don't grow on trees.
>

  No, that's kind of the mystery. I didn't unhook things for precisely
that reason, and last night was the first time the system had been powered
on since VCF. I moved the rack in the house (minus the RM503 scope, BTW)
and let it acclimatize for a couple of days, since it was 35 degrees F
when in my garage that day. It's quite possible (and completely my 'luck'
in these matters) that it just died on power-up, not connected with all
the moving. I played around with it for a few hours after swapping out
the ESDI card, and all is as normal. Go figure. And, perhaps I can find
some doc on these cards, to maybe repair it. There's a Z80 and a big ASIC
or PAL on the card, along with the usual collection of ROMs and glue
chips. I'm not scrapping it yet.

  Cheerz

John
Received on Sat Nov 09 2002 - 10:42:00 GMT