[Coco] OT: 63B09

[gene heskett]

On Sunday, October 30, 2011 09:55:01 PM Louis Ciotti did opine:

> Image captures of the offending data lines:
> 
> http://s768.photobucket.com/albums/xx321/k2lrv/?action=view&current=7ccc
> a01b .jpg
> http://s768.photobucket.com/albums/xx321/k2lrv/?action=view&current=1f26
> 6864 .jpg
> 
> Here is another one that appears fine:
> http://s768.photobucket.com/albums/xx321/k2lrv/?action=view&current=4a53
> 4a7d .jpg

Sorry, all I get is the front page, see mini rant below.

> I "cleaned" the pins using a pencil eraser , and it has been in and out
> of the socket several times.

Dry pencil erasers can develop a static charge that can and has destroyed 
CMOS chips for me.  Make sure its wet, and you have a finger on the metal 
ferrule holding it so as to ground it to a common voltage level, your body.  
If you are grounded with a hand on the chassis, even better.
 
> Thanks for the help.  The NTE part is PMOS I believe, and like you said
> I believe the excess current draw compared to the CMOS is causing the
> crystal not to work as intended.

mini-rant:
 
I am not, and likely never will be, a "member" of photobucket, it is IMO 
just another place that can be hacked and my private info to register is 
stolen, which I won't give them, so I cannot see them.  That is why I 
requested one of the pastebin's, there are several scattered around the 
planet.  They are absolutely free, and depend on your setting the images 
lifetime to just a day or 2 so it is automatically deleted.  A _real_ 
troubleshooting tool if you will.

/mini-rant

Since I can be outspoken, you might ask "Who is this guy?"  A 77 YO retired 
broadcast engineer who has been making electrons do useful work for a 
living for the last 62 years.  I quit school over a health problem the 
school wasn't handling well, in my freshman year of high school and went 
out to get a job fixing the then new-fangled things called televisions.  
Along the way I collected an FCC 1st Phone, and a journeyman C.E.T. ticket, 
and a degree from the University of Hard Knocks, and finished off my 
working days back on June 30, 2002 by retiring from WDTV-5 after 18 years 
as the CE, often working alone.  That of course is a very short version of 
my resume, there is more I won't bore this list by repeating.

To put that in its proper context, all that, and $1.42, will get you a 16oz 
coffee to go at my local 7-11's. :)

I am a long time member of the coco list, clear back to the Princeton days.  
The coco, and os9, taught me a lot about computers, so anytime I can share 
some of my knowledge, I usually do.  Paying the tuition so to speak.

The health problem turned out to be an allergy to milk, which being an Iowa 
farm kid, I drank lots of.  Several others have come and gone in nearly 8 
decades.

Cheers, Gene
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