On Jan 14, 2012, at 3:56 AM, Wouter de Waal wrote:
David Riley wrote:
Ooh, another place I can find 4116s cheaply (even
more so than Jameco). Wish I'd known about this place when I was fixing my Defender
boards!
I replaced the 4116s in my Apple with 4164s. OK, it's not original (you should have
seen the mix of 4116s that came out of there) and you only use a quarter of the chip but
it doesn't need all those pesky voltages and they run cooler too.
True, and people certainly do that with Defender boards a lot. At least in the case of
Defender, it does require an adaptor, though. In an Apple II, you could at least make an
adaptor to use all of the chip (if you wanted, it's probably more trouble than
it's worth), but in Defender, it actually reads out of all three banks simultaneously
for the video shift register load, so there'd definitely be a waste of RAM.
A 41464, though, could cut down significantly on the number of chips.
Anyway, there's lots of options, but it's kinda nice to have an original-looking
board (well, as original as it came, anyway; someone modified the battery holder on one of
them to be a CR2032 holder, which is pragmatic if nothing else).
- Dave