[Coco] really dumb cartridge question

[George Ramsower]

Robert,

  Remember this old saying..."There are no dumb questions, only dumb 
mistakes".

  This leaves you being smart!! So far all the folks have given you good 
information.

George R.


On 10/26/2016 04:38 PM, Robert Hermanek wrote:
> So I have an old game cart here that my kids liked to play. Eventually 
> the little circuit board inside broke free of its mounts and the play 
> was over.  I opened it up today and saw that oh, I could probably just 
> superglue the mounting posts and put it back together.  So I glued.
>
> But I forgot to look before I removed the screws from the circuit 
> board:  which way was it mounted in there, or more simply, which way 
> is up?  All these game carts are is a little board with a round "bump" 
> on one side that no doubt contains whatever ROM gizmo is required.  
> The 37/38 pins are marked on the board, but I don't know if these 
> correspond to whatever numbering was used on coco side. So, imagine me 
> putting this thing back in the cart and plugging it in:  my two 
> options are:
>
> a)  Mount the board with the "bump" on top of board facing top of cart 
> case, meaning their labelled pins 37/38 would be toward the front of 
> the coco
>
> b)  Mount the board with the "bump" underneath, so facing the desk my 
> coco is on, meaning their labelled pins 37/38 would be toward the back 
> of the coco
>
> Obviously option c) would have been look at the dumb thing before you 
> take it apart.
>
> Thanks
> -RobertH
>