And thusly were the wise words spake by Tony Duell
Dan, that's fine advice. But a capacitor is just a
capacitor. They blow. No reason someone shouldn't
replace one if that'll get their computer back up and
running.
The Tandy 2000 used a funky p/s that was prone to, I
think, one particular cap blowing. What can you do?
You could jury rig another p/s in it's place. But when
mine went (in 1989) I looked at the schematic, and
Incidentally, IIRC, the Tandy 2000 PSU schematic is reprinted in the 2nd
edition of The Art of Elecrtronics (!)
Speaking of schematics, the TRS-80 schematic (plus a couple of
Radio Shack pong-style videogame schematics) are reprinted and
discussed in "Troubleshooting Microprocessors & Digital Logic" by
Robert L. Goodman.
Cheers,
Bryan