Or just
sacrifice an old Apple //e (common as dirt) or C64 (common as
lint) and use the chips inside.
Please! only sacrifice non working machines, Dinosaurs may have been as
common as dirt once, but you don't see many of them now. I understand
that at least for C64 the main failure point is the SID chip...
Actually, no ... it's the PLA, most of the time. The SID won't cause a
non-working machine if it's blown (I've blown SIDs many times on SX-64s
due to a well-known board fault on the video port, and the machine still
works, just without sound, of course).
p.s. anyone have a common as blue lint C64SX I could
have (the portable
C64)?
If I wear a blue shirt, I get a lot of blue lint ;)
They're not too hard to find, in any case. Don't buy them from eBay, find a
private collector. For the two I own, I paid a grand total of $30 (really).
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