[Coco] IT"S ALIVE!!!

[Robert Gault]

Bill Pierce wrote:
>
> Wow.... It finally came back to life!
> ... I noticed the rom chip on the keyboard interface was a little dusty so I decided to clean it while I had the computer open. I took out the chip (carefully) and proceeded to clean it with some alcohol and qtip when the bottom half of one of the pins fell off.
 > ....

Great story and not that unusual I'd bet. The same thing happened to me with a 
GIME chip.

In order to test software that gave the Coco3 a "run for its money", I would 
exchange the two GIME chip versions to see how the GIME chips differed. This was 
with regards the search for the "256 color mode". I did this once too often and 
broke a pin off the newer GIME as it came out of the plastic.

Luckily there was still a small amount of metal visible which I could expose 
further by scraping away some plastic with a knife blade. With the GIME inserted 
in the socket, I placed a short piece of copper wire into that portion of the 
socket so that it made contact with both the socket and residual pin.
The Coco3 worked perfectly!

Robert