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- From: rknop@cco.caltech.edu (Robert Andrew Knop)
- Subject: Re: What to do with broken C64.
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.150556.17575@cco.caltech.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 15:05:56 GMT
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- par@nwu.edu (Pete Rodriguez) writes:
-
- >Does anyone have any advice on what to do with a broken C64? I don't want
- >to repair it since I was able to get a new one cheap. Is there anything
- >that's worth salvaging for use with the one that works?
-
- Whatever you do, don't throw it out. Chances are, only one chip in the
- computer is dead, meaning that the rest of the chips could potentially be used
- to fix another dead 64 (or vice versa). This is assuming that the chips are
- socketed, or that one could desolder the chips without destroying them (which
- is certainly possible). There are other parts as well- the key assemblies,
- even the case- which could be useful to replace flagging parts on another 64.
-
- If you don't want it hanging around, find someone locally who fixes these
- things, or who collects these things "for parts," to give it to.
-
- -Rob Knop
- rknop@tybalt.caltech.edu
-