Dead PET4032
tony duell
ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk
Mon Oct 5 13:52:40 CDT 2015
> Look for inconsistencies in voltages and pulses to and from RAM. You may
> need RAM at the lowest memory locations to boot. Hooking up the keyboard
> at least to eliminate a missing keyboard as a reason the system does not
The PET keyboard is just a matrix of switches, if nothing it pressed it tests as
an open-circuit between all pins. So the machine can't fail to start up because
the keyboard is not connected.
-tony
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