15 Feb
2006
15 Feb
'06
8:19 p.m.
On Wednesday 15 February 2006 07:24 pm, John Foust wrote:
At 05:54 PM 2/15/2006, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
SID and CIA chips used to die left and right back in the day, no?
CIAs are understandable because they dealt with I/O connectors,
but I thought SID chips died often, too.
Not that often in my experience. But yeah those CIA chips...
We used to buy a square of that black foam that radio shack sold, which being
way too springy was next to useless for sticking chips into, and with an
empty DB9 shell stuff a sliver of it into the joystick connectors on a c64 or
128. It didn't bother the joysticks any, though it would tend to upset game
paddles or some other peripherals (which most folks didn't use anyhow).
Saved a lot of repeat stuff, that little trick...
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Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin
It's my understanding that the folks
interested in these are using them in
audio synthesizer type applications.
"Emulation" has a new shade of meaning in this context, doesn't it?
Incorporating old chips into new designs in order to perfectly
reproduce unique functionality like the quirks of the SID audio.
Has
anyone ever determined why SID chips were so sensitive and
tried to determine a preventative?
Sensitive how?