14 Apr
2002
14 Apr
'02
7:55 p.m.
Hi,
John Honniball <coredump(a)gifford.co.uk> said:
Tony Duell wrote:
For the benefit of any UK readers, Maplin still list 2114s, part number
QW12N, price 4.99 - how long for is another matter, however...
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Cheers,
Stan Barr stanb(a)dial.pipex.com
The future was never like this!
> > I've had semicondcutor RAM fail,
albeit not DRAM in a PC. 2114s are
> > particularly bad for this.
...
Hmm.. I've had so many 2114s fail, in
equipment from different
manufacturers (examples : a Commodore 8050 disk drive, a TRS80 Model 3
(video RAM) and an HP82163 video interface) that I really suspect the
chips...
I had a 2114 go bad in my UK101. I swapped it into the video RAM,
which made the stuck "1" bit visible as a dud character in the
middle of the screen. Scrolling made it "smear" all the way up
to the top.
More recently, I've managed to obtain a supply of 2114s to
(hopefully) keep the UK101 going.