21 Aug
2001
21 Aug
'01
4:18 p.m.
At 01:06 pm 21/08/2001 -0600, you wrote:
If the CPU's broken, surely you can get that ...
I expect Farnell carry it (that's where I got the Z80 prices from), but a
quick search on "6502" revealed nothing; but I only did it quickly, so may
have made a mistake.
The ROM's are probably pin-compatible with some
flavor of EPROM, and
somebody,
somewhere, surely has the working ROM's ...
Hmm, possibly. I suspect it's going to involve many hours of slaving over a
hot soldering iron, and TBH my soldering's just not that good. Besides,
Maplin seem to have mislaid my order for a bunch of soldering-related kit
(e.g. the desolderer), so no major surgery can take place yet :(
If you can locate that stuff, perhaps it will be easier
to effect repairs
than
to find the complete and functional heart/lung/brain,
eh?
Possibly. The trouble is - where can the problem lie? The machine is either
not starting up, or the beeper is dead (and without the screen, the beeper
is the only means of checking whether it works or not; well, maybe. I could
just plug in a diskdrive and try it...
Actually, I like the look of the German -SK; without a keyboard it should
have relatively low collectability value, so it's going to be spares
hunters like myself who will go for it. Anyway, even if I do end up
spending a bit too much, I should be able to farm out my duff one for a few
quid :) OTOH, I'll probably put it in storage in case anything else goes pop.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bryan Pope" <bpope(a)wordstock.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 12:30 PM
Subject: CBM 8032 SK
> > In order to stimulate conversation: Does anyone have a Commodore 8032
> > mainboard in known working condition that they'd be willing to part with?
> >
> > I've recently acquired an 8032-SK, but the CPU is dead, two ROMs are
> > missing, and even adding known working replacements is not enough to
breath
> > life back into this poor wee beastie. So
it's got to be a
heart/lung/brain
> > transplant for it - for now, at least.
>
> eBay actually has two:
>
> One from Germany:
> http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1266289471
>
> and one from the US:
> http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1266958681
>
> Both still have very low prices...
Cheers!
Ade.
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