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- From: mwandel@bnr.ca (Markus Wandel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Sigh! No PET schematics in existence?
- Date: 17 Mar 1996 01:39:44 GMT
- Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
- Message-ID: <4ifqh0$f0h@bcarh8ab.bnr.ca>
- Reply-To: markus@pinetree.org
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- Someone gave me a PET that doesn't work. Old 9" screen model, 4008, upgraded
- to 32K, pre-8032 motherboard with discrete TTL video. I've already tried
- swapping all the LSI parts and the DRAMs. Sometimes (one out of twenty)
- when powered on it drops into the machine language monitor, so quite a bit
- of it works, but the memory is partially corrupt -- the "AA" pattern has
- occasional other values in it. The corruption pattern is ALWAYS the same
- and "G FD16" from the monitor restores it. Visual inspection shows nothing
- wrong with the board, supply voltages are OK. I'd like to debug it but it's
- hopeless without a schematic.
-
- Surely these schematics can't be completely extinct? I mean, there had to
- be a service manual at some point.
-
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- Markus Wandel Ottawa Ont. Canada (613) 592-1225
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