[Coco] GIME

[Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)]

Honestly I hardly think they do actually have them.

Do you see a BUY NOW button or Send RQF ? Because if it's not Buy Now this
means they don't have it but they will got for it. I got negative answers
for other parts they claimed having it in their websites.


On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 2:44 PM, Bill Gunshannon <billg999 at cs.uofs.edu>wrote:

>
> Here's a new question which shoild reveal even more of my ignorance.
>
> I have heard that the most common chip to fail in the COCO3 was the
> GIME.  Correct?
>
> I have also heard that they are pretty much impossible to replace.
>
> Except that in doing some searches I have found at least a dozen
> places (mostly in China) who claim to be able to provide this chip.
>
> Is there something unique about the one used by the COCO3 or is it
> a plain, vanilla 2645A0001/TCC1014?
>
> The reason I ask is that I have one or two broken COCO3's in a box
> here somewhere from many moons ago and if the likely failure is the
> GIME and I can buy replacements, why should I not fix them?
>
> Oh yeah, and on another separate topic, is there anywhere that one
> can buy the little boards that go in a ROM PAK?  I tried removing
> the Tandy game chip from one and it seems pretty much impossible to
> do without damaging the little board itself.  Is there anyone still
> making/selling cartridge prototyping boards?  I am dying to get back
> into hardware hacking and I think the COCO is the animal to do it on.
>
>
> bill
>
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