PET 2001 Oddity - 6550 unobtainium!

From: Witchy <witchy_at_binarydinosaurs.co.uk>
Date: Wed Jan 22 00:06:39 2003

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cctech-admin_at_classiccmp.org [mailto:cctech-admin_at_classiccmp.org]On
> Behalf Of Kevin Andres
> Sent: 20 January 2003 15:10
> To: 'cctech_at_classiccmp.org'
> Subject: RE: PET 2001 Oddity - 6550 unobtainium!
>
>
> To all, (for fear of missing someone!)
> I have a PET with the feared 6550 Unobtainiums. It doesn't
> even get to a
> prompt, but I suspect the screen full
> of characters with some blinking and some that change upon an [ENTER] key
> is telling me a video RAM went south. As

When my 2001 did that I got some 2114s from bgmicro.com to swap out the
video RAM and it works sweetly now.

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