Need help on old parts?? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

7 Sep 2000

On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, "R. D. Davis" &lt;rdd(a)smart.net&gt; wrote:

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  On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Tony Duell wrote:
  Oh come on!. There are places for programmable
logic, but this sure isn't 
 one of them.  
 Yes, that's what I think as well.

  One of the rules that I work to when repairing a
classic computer is to 
 replace as little as possible (==keep as much of the original stuff as 
 possible). So you repair a PCB rather than replacing it. You replace only 
 the faulty component, not great blocks of logic. Why replace stuff that's 
 working properly?  
 In addition, those PALs/GALs will most likely fail before the rest of
 the other older components would have failed.  It makes no sense to
 replace that which is working properly... 
In other words: "IF it ain't broke, don't fix it!"

Mike