[Coco] Using a NTSC Coco in the UK - my findings

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 22 February 2007, Bob Devries wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Torsten Dittel" <Torsten at Dittel.info>
>
>> I had the same probs with one shipped from Australia and after
>> pressing gently(!) on the GIME it worked again. Looks like a contact
>> problem of any of the socketed stuff (in your case it's more likely
>> the 512K board).
>
>Torsten,
>The Aussie Coco3 had the problem with the badly socketted GIME right
> from day one. If I had a buck (0.602047 EURO) for every one I opened up
> and reseated the chip in, I'd be moderatley well off. Tandy actually
> started to supply the special clip to hold the GIME in place after
> that, and gave me a bunch of samples to fit to coco3's that came my
> way.

This is the first I've heard of that Torsten, I don't suppose it has an 
RSA number?
>
>> Regards,
>> Torsten
>
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>Regards, Bob Devries, Dalby, Queensland, Australia
>
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>
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