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[Stephen Castello]

On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 20:00:03 -0700 (PDT), Jim Hickle
<jlhickle at yahoo.com> had a flock of green cheek conures squawk out:

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>
>I have a Performance Peripheral RAM board but I'm not sure if there
>is something wrong with it or the coco3.  The screen is filled with random characters.
> I pulled the 512k board and plugged in two 64k chips and the computer works, but
> there is a dark horizontal line that rolls vertically.  But I don't know if it would need
> the capacitors that were clipped for the memory upgrade would need replaced or 
>maybe the power supply is bad.  If nobody offers a good 512k board, I can try testing
> this one in my working Coco3.  I' ve not put much effort into reviving it since I have
> a working 512k machine and it would be easier to buy a new board from Cloud-9.
>

One cause of the garbage is a bad connection.  The pin headers &
sockets oxidize over time.  Moving the memory board up & down in the
sockets usually cures it.

Stephen
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