[Coco] Coco1 repair parts ?? & Results of Repair!!

Arthur Flexser flexser at fiu.edu
Wed Jul 7 14:46:44 EDT 2004


On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, Roger Taylor wrote:

> At 09:11 PM 7/6/2004, you wrote:
> >The first thing I found when I removed the tin shield over the RAM chips was
> >that all eight chips were barely pressed into their sockets. Whoever built the
> >thing must have been worried about pressing down too hard. I can't believe it
> 
> I've reseated lots of DRAM chips over the years that rode out of their 
> sockets partially.
> 

More likely, the reseating dislodged oxidation that was interfering with a
good contact.

Art




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