[Coco] OT: End of the world

[Arthur Flexser]

If you're correct that the PIA chip is at fault, perhaps you could
order the chip and resurrect your old friend.  One way to test for
this is to swap the two PIAs that the CoCo contains.  Much easier, of
course, if you have a model where they're socketed.  If you have a bad
PIA, the symptoms will certainly change if you swap the two.

Possibly, you should wait a day or two to make absolutely certain that
the world is still around before trying this.

Art

On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 9:15 PM, Gustavo Ranaur Schoenaker
<ranaur at ranaur.net> wrote:
> Well ... the world didn`t end in Brazil. Everything here ends in samba. And
> the carnival is in february. Well almost there ... :-)
>
> "My world" ended today for a different reason.
>
> My first CoCo is officially dead. I bought it, second hand, when I was 13.
> It is was booting and recognizing the cartridges. Only the keyboard was
> dead. I tried everything, and I was planning to write an arduino keyboard
> replacement.
>
> Last month I found and bought in eBay a replacement keyboard. It arrived
> today.
>
> Tried to put the new keyboard but I got no luck. The keyboard is fine. The
> problem is in the PIA CHIP.  I tried to short circuit the pins of the
> connector to see if I can simulate the keys, but I had no luck. It worked a
> month ago when I was trying to make the arduino replacement. That`s why I
> tried to buy the keyboard. But today It stopped working. It is giving 5V
> only on the first pin, and 0,6 on pins 2-9.
>
> Well it is dead. R.I.P. my friend, we had a great time together. One less
> CoCo in the world, that is a sad thing, but it is not he end of the world.
>
> I got to buy a CoCo 3 now. :)
>
> BTW the mayan calendar issue, for me, is just a Y2K archeological bug :)
>
> On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 11:48 PM, Tom Seagrove <tjseagrove at writeme.com>wrote:
>
>> The guy that had the job of making the calendars dies an no one took his
>> place.  They figured it would be a few years before they actually needed
>> more years so downsized that department....
>>
>> You heard it here first.
>>
>> On Dec 20, 2012, at 8:40 PM, Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Dec 20, 2012, at 7:37 PM, Bill Pierce <ooogalapasooo at aol.com> wrote:
>> > The Mayans didn't predict anything.... it's just the date their calendar
>> ended. They ran out of space on the stone tablet. The predictions have all
>> been made up by the idiot's who studied the thing figuring if they ended
>> the calendar there, it must be "The End"
>>
>> Oh crap.
>>
>> My calendar ends December 31st.
>>
>> I didn't see that coming.
>>
>>
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