9 Nov
2007
9 Nov
'07
10:22 a.m.
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 17:45:36 +1300
From: Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at usap.gov>
Subject: Re: Commodore PET
<snip>
I got a lot of miles out of that PET. I still have it
and it still
fires up (but I think I have an IEEE problem that may turn out to be
cruddy 40-pin sockets on the VLSI I/O chips).
<snip>
Those sockets were indeed a PITA, but another easy-to-overlook problem
I ran into with my 8050 disk drive is that if you happen to catch the tip of
one of the contacts in the female IEEE connector while plugging in the cable
you can easily push it into the connector and out the back, causing an
intermittent.
m