14 Mar
2005
14 Mar
'05
9:42 a.m.
From: "Vintage Computer Festival" <vcf at
siconic.com>
In case anyone cares, I ended up getting working that Videotrax card I
wrote about a day ago. What might be useful to know is that I followed
Dwight's advice and re-seated the only socketed chip on the board (that
customy Motorola chip). After doing this everything seems to be working
peachy. I'm more than halfway through dumping another 10 megabytes of
data from one of the VHS data tapes I have; so far so good.
New maxim: when all else fails, re-seat.
--
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
Hi
Good to hear.
Dwight
5:47 p.m.
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 14:47:26 -0800 (PST), Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
COMBOARDs, too... we used to tell all of our customers who had
problems booting our boards (prior to initiating a connection to the
other end, our software rebooted our own board and loaded the protocol
engine image)... in the case of Qbus and Unibus boards, since the
fingers are gold, it has to be due to oxide build up on the backplane
pins.
Probably 75% of the people who called in with hardware problems were
able to get back on the air by reseating our card.
-ethan
>New maxim:
when all else fails, re-seat.
... as has almost always been the maxim for Apple ]['s
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