Otrona Attache 8:16 DOS board debugging tip

Thought I'd share this, just so it at least gets archived for posterity... Idug out my Otrona Attaches this week and decided to try and fix the16-bit (aka "almost PC-compatible") board in one of them. The symptom was that the board would run correctly for maybe 90 seconds before it would crash. The built in diagnostics (for ROM rev. H) can test the RAM on the 16-bit board (using the "[" command from the monitor), and doing so revealed that the RAM test would pass for a little while and then start failing, indicating "U66" as the fault.According to the service manual this indicates the actual faulty chip on the board. Not so! Replacing U66 had no effect. I then got out my Fluke 9010 w/8086 pod (I'm just dying for excuses to play with this thing...) and had ittest the RAM (the 16-bit board contains 256K). RAM from word 0x20000 to 0x3FFFF was fine, but the lower half of RAM started showing bit 0x4000 stuck after warm up -- looking at the Otrona schematic (http://oldcomputers.net/Attache_Schematics.pdf) this would point to chip U61 (which services bit 14 for the lower half of memory), not U66(which is bit 14 for the upper half). So: Moral of the story is the Attache's attempt at being helpful is simply misleading, alas.Hopefully this helps someone else someday :). - Josh