[Coco] First CoCo

Benoit Bleau benbleau at gmail.com
Tue Oct 23 22:07:25 EDT 2018


I'll try thank, thanks!

On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 11:38 AM Gene Heskett <gheskett at shentel.net> wrote:

> On Tuesday 23 October 2018 08:43:25 Benoit Bleau wrote:
>
> > I still do.  It's a 32k E board, SN bellow 300, if I remember
> > correctly.  I bought it with pretty much all the money I made that
> > summer,  the coco,1 disk drive and the line printer VIII.
> > Sweet setup at the time.
> >
> > The last time I tried to turn it on, I think that the SAM chip was
> > blown on it, getting random characters on screen.
> >
> > -Benoit
>
> Try lifting all the socketed chips about 1/16" or so and reseating them,
> cuts thru the oxide on the chips pins for a while, in extreme cases pull
> them out paying attention to the scalloped end so you put it back the
> right end to, but give them a soak in the silverware chemical called
> Tarn-X for 30 minutes or so while stirring it till the pins are nice &
> clean instead of black, rinse well in hot water, dry them pins down on a
> turkish towel till dry. and re-install.  Unless you've a genuinely bad
> chip, that should fix it.
>
> > On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 10:32 PM Sean <badfrog at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I do!  CoCo 2 with 64KB ECB.  Amazing Christmas gift when I was a
> > > kid.
> > >
> > > On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 7:26 PM Bruce W. Calkins <
> > > brucewcalkins at charter.net>
> > >
> > > wrote:
> > > > Change of subject.  ;)
> > > >
> > > > How many of us still have their first CoCo?
> > > >
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