Another bad PET rom! - and more UPS

Hi Guys, Had a PET 2001-8N arrive a couple of days ago - non-functional but in otherwise very nice cosmetic condition. At first I thought it was missing a ROM, as there were only 4 ROMs in the machine, however after looking at them I realized that it has BASIC 2 installed which is one ROM smaller than BASIC 4 which is what is in my virtually identical 2001-32N. Bit of debugging, and I discovered that the problem was --- yes! - yet another bad PET rom! - fortunately, it was the EDIT ROM which is the only 2K device, and hence the only device which can be directly replaced with a more commonly available 2716. (CS3 which is tied to +5 in the PET lines up with VPP, CS1 lines up with -OE, and A11 which is always low on accesses to EDIT ROM lines up with -CE). Programmed a 2716, dropped it in and up it came! Now on to UPS --- I *NEVER* use UPS - not only do they usually break things, but they charge horrendous brokerage fees to import from the US to Canada. Case in point - in spite of my explicitly telling him NOT to send via UPS - they guy sent it UPS ... Apparently because they agreed to pack it for him. To their credit, they did a non-bad job - the PET was wrapped in about 5 layers of bubble wrap, and then placed in a large box stuffed with plastic peanuts - much as I dislike PP's, the bubble wrap protected the machine from getting filled with lots of little styrofoam bits and seemed to keep it fairly centered in the box. - the machine arrived in excellent condition, although the cost for UPS packing and shipping was higher than I had agreed to. So - it arrives at my door with a bill for an additional $42 --- thats what UPS charged to provide customs with the declaration that he had filled out. ... I *NEVER* use UPS! Regards, Dave -- dave04a (at) Dave Dunfield dunfield (dot) Firmware development services & tools: www.dunfield.com com Collector of vintage computing equipment: http://www.parse.com/~ddunfield/museum/index.html