Epson PX-8 finally dead with no hope? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

7 Dec 1997

Over the last couple of years my PX-8 has suffered a slow degredation of
its quality of life.  Firstly the old batteries gave out, but when these
were replaced with a set from Tauber Electronics of 4901 Morena Blvd,
San Diego, Ca., the replacement set took a looooong time to charge up,
and in the process burnt out a  transistor - GRB - R6 in the attached
Multi-unit (64) board.  Nothing would work. So I detached the multi unit
and limped on with the original 12kb of memory. However, the tape drive
also stopped writing correctly. If I wrote to it I could no longer
access any thing from it.

But still we limped along for over 2 years, by downloading through the
serial port via a VT200 cable to the Unix system at work using the Term
program, each time we'd written four pages of text.

But finaly the it is also not powering up, and all the advise I read in
the archives of this list - particularly:

To: "Discussion re-collecting of classic computers"
&lt;classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu&gt; 
     Subject: Re: Epson PX-8, no power up 
     From: Paul E Coad &lt;pcoad(a)crl.com&gt; 
     Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 00:16:23 -0700 (PDT) 
     In-Reply-To: &lt;33DB9664.7DF771DF(a)rain.org&gt; 
AND

To: "Discussion re-collecting of classic computers"
&lt;classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu&gt; 
     Subject: Re: Epson PX-8, no power up 
     From: Marvin &lt;marvin(a)rain.org&gt; 
     Date: Sun, 27 Jul 1997 11:41:40 -0700 
     References: &lt;Pine.SUN.3.91.970727103047.2032L-100000(a)crl3.crl.com&gt; 

Etc. has been to no avail. All the ROMS are in, the batteries are
connected, the Power units work etc. etc...

Is it time to turn the unit into a boat anchor?  It has served us so
well for so long it seems there should be a more fitting way of saying
goodbye.  I'd be willing to mail it anyhere, but it was repairable when
it left Israel, I doubt it would be by the time it got to where it is
going.

Now I'm left with an orphaned P-80X printer - I guess I may as will
ditch it as well.

Pity...

regards,
Bryn Deamer
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