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- From: RICHARD WHITE <richwhite2@mci.newscorp.com>
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- Subject: It's Alive! (The 8032)
- Date: 17 Feb 1996 02:59:30 GMT
- Organization: MCI/News Corp.
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- Hi all...
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- After several hours of poking and prodding around my 8032,
- I finally got the thing working! (Complete with little
- piezo startup sound!)
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- The problem was the IC socket on the main motherboard where
- the 6502 (or expansion cable in my case) would plug in
- to... I simply whipped out the 'ol desoldering and
- soldering irons, and had a new 40-pin IC socket installed
- in no time!
-
- So if there are dead 8032's out there... and you're sure
- the power supply is good... chances are those cheap white
- IC-sockets are going bad..... (The ones for the EPROMS
- aren't much better)... Press down on the IC's and try
- booting the system... Thats what I did... (of course,
- don't touch any pins <G>)
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- Thanks for everyone's help...
- I now have a nice 8032 w/96k (so its a 8096 then, right?)
- complete with 8050 Dual drive, MSD-1 SuperDrive, 300baud
- modem, and even a Commodore IEEE printer!
-
- They're quite handsome computers, aren't they? I love how
- crisp the green-screen is....
-
-
- No onto the next question:
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- Any good FTP sites with PET files on them? <G>
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- TTFN....
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- Rich
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