[Coco] Help with floppy disk setup - first time user

Blake Patterson blakespot at gmail.com
Wed Feb 1 10:58:37 EST 2012


I'll try to reseat the chips. But...it's less of an issue now. Thanks to Boisy's help, I've got DriveWire up and running -- awesome -- finally fiddling with this CoCo 3!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/blakespot/6801747991/in/set-72157629128977473

And, I see the unlabeled DVD that came packaged in with the lot contains quite a bit of DriveWire fodder. :-) Having fun so far!




bp

On Feb 1, 2012, at 10:43 AM, Rogelio Perea wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 9:48 AM, gene heskett wrote:
> 
> 
>> I don't like that discoloration around the lower right 7406, possible
>> corrosion?
>> 
> 
> Indeed. Maybe it would be a good idea to pop-up those 7406s out of their
> sockets and see if there is no problem with contaminated in the contacts
> both of the ICs and the sockets... reseat the chips and try again.
> 
> 
> -- RP
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