19 Oct
1999
19 Oct
'99
7:03 a.m.
"Bill Sudbrink" <bill(a)chipware.com> wrote:
Hi Doug
Watch out for the Jamco 2114's. The last bunch I got were
more than 70% bad. These are old parts that they get from various
sources and they have no way to test them. Of course, they
are glade to replace any that are bad but then you become
their tester, at little cost.
Dwight
Bill,
Let me know if you need a copy of this. Thanks again for the C4P boot
disks. The C4P-MF is coming along nicely. The power supply checks out
and I'm pulling every socketed chip and reseating it during the
cleaning.
So far, I've found 5 chips with pins broken down inside the sockets.
Fortunately, I was able to remove the pins from the sockets.
Now I just need to pick-up some replacement 8T26 bus driver/receivers
and then check all of those 2114s on the two 527 Ram boards and I'll
be ready to fire this thing up. :)
--Doug
Great to hear. Again, I hope that the disks survived the
trips through the airport metal detectors and that our
drives are aligned close enough for them to work. I have
a fairly large stash of untested 2114s if you can't find
any locally. Remember, you can always start out with only
one 527 board to see how things are going.
Bill