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- From: a10@server.uwindsor.ca (Darren Fuerst)
- Subject: Re: Chip life (was: Looking for C=64 emulator?)
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- References: <4fc5mj$ub8@guysmiley.blarg.net> <4fic5r$bml@victoria.pe.net> <Pine.PTX.3.91j.960210151609.17763A-100000@carson.u.washington.edu>
- Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 05:06:37 GMT
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- In article <Pine.PTX.3.91j.960210151609.17763A-100000@carson.u.washington.edu> Raymond Carlsen <rrcc@u.washington.edu> writes:
- >thermal stress on the device. Commodore saved a few pennies by not
- >sinking the chips in the C-64 (except the VIC in the later boards).
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- Over one million plus machines this adds up to "serious" money. My first
- VIC 20 failed due to a lack of proper heat sinks in the power supply.
- So what -- heat sinks are cheap (as you point out).
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- Darren
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