Jupiter Ace PCB - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

6 Jan 2009

Peter Coghlan wrote:
...
     A few of you
might remember the Jupiter Ace I had that took a 9V spike to
 the expansion slot -- and my futile attempts at repairing it. It's been well 
 over four years since I sent it to a listmember who offered to repair it, and 
 all attempts to get the board or the spares I sent with it have failed. At 
 this point, I haven't seen hide nor hair of him in months, although he's 
 apparently still updating his website...

 Hi Phil,

 If you are not going to let us know the identity of the person involved,
 please at least inform the list owner. A lot of people regard membership
 of the list as conferring a degree of trustworthyness and it would be a
 shame if that was damaged. 
The person in question is Lee Davison. Specifically, the Lee Davison that 
maintains the website <http://themotionstore.com/leeedavison/>.

I sent the Ace motherboard to him in ~2002, complete with about ?7 worth of 
stamps and a ready-filled-out Special Delivery sticker. The agreement was, 
he'd try and fix it, and if he couldn't fix it (or if I asked for it to be 
returned), he'd return it. I'm fully aware that postage prices have increased 
over the past few years, and I've offered to pay for them. The last time I 
heard from Lee was in April 2004; he said he didn't want to send it back 
"disassembled, which it is -- very much so".

It can't be in much worse shape than it was when I sent it.. the CPU and RAM 
were removed, among other things. IIRC, it was due a full set of new IC 
sockets (the CPU socket was certainly well stuffed)...

...
  Ps: I once repaired a Jupiter Ace for a friend. At the
time, I had no idea
 whatsoever how to diagnose the problem. Luckily, the defective RAM chip gave
 itself away by overheating (to the point of burning my finger) and replacing
 it sorted it out. 
Yeah, 2114s like doing that...
I was going to build a RAM tester for 2114s at one point, until I realised 
that they don't usually fail with any degree of subtlety :)

...
  I do have a very bad memory so I hope it wasn't me
you sent your Ace to :-(
 However, I don't fit the bill as I don't have a website :-)
 Unless I've forgotten about that too... 
LOL! :)

Thanks,
-- 
Phil.
classiccmp at philpem.me.uk
http://www.philpem.me.uk/