[Coco] CoCo 2 64K upgrade blues

Barry Nelson barry.nelson at amobiledevice.com
Sat Aug 5 10:53:46 EDT 2017


Since Darren A mentioned quote:
> The CoCo 2 schematic I have (don't know if it's for the 8709416
> motherboard) shows all the NC pin 1 of the DRAM chips are tied to +5V on
> the board.  If you haven't lifted the pins out of their sockets and are
> connecting them all to GND then you could be shorting out the whole system.
> 
> If the pins are all tied to +5V on the board rather than floating then
> there is no need for any special mod, it should just work.
> 
> 
> - Darren

I would do nothing. It should work without doing anything special to pin 1.


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