[Coco] Coco 1 263-3001 just goes to 'ok' prompt when turned on

[Arthur Flexser]

Bill, the ROMs were working fine.  The ROM test for warm vs. cold
start is bypassed if a cartridge is detected.  Extra persistence of
RAM memory due to the cold temperature would completely explain what
happened.

Art

On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Bill Pierce <ooogalapasooo at aol.com> wrote:
>
> Have you tried pulling, cleaning and reseating all "socketed" chips, especially the roms?
> I recently got a Coco 1 that had the same problem. I pulled the roms, cleaned the pins with alcohol (99%) and reseated them. It runs like a champ now :-)
> This would explain the game carts working and the roms not working.
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremy Michea <jmichea at mail.com>
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> Sent: Fri, Dec 6, 2013 5:06 pm
> Subject: [Coco] Coco 1 263-3001 just goes to 'ok' prompt when turned on
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>
> Perhaps you are right Arthur. I should mention that this coco just arrived in
> the mail and it is COLD right now. Wonder if I should have let the machine
> acclimate before I first hooked it up.
>
> As an update, after using it a bit more, I'm getting the regular extended basic
> prompt with almost 100% frequency now. Also what I thought was a 16k machine
> appears to be a 64k machine after getting 24781 with print mem. Also, this coco
> appears to have belonged to the RCMP at one time. There's a sticker on the
> bottom stating such.
>
> Perhaps this coco was used to solve crimes!
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