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   Message 131 of 2,243   
   Wilfred van Velzen to Ed Vance   
   Re: This echoarea   
   07 Nov 15 13:17:04   
   
   Hi,   
      
   On 2015-11-06 21:56:00, Ed Vance wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:   
     about: "Re: This echoarea":   
      
    EV>> Try Your C=64, I'd think it would work since it boot up from ROM   
    EV>> Chips instead of from a Hard Disk or Floppy.   
      
    WvV>> I'm afraid of old capacitors that wouldn't survive the first turn on   
    WvV>> of power after so many years. And that could also damage other more   
    WvV>> vital parts. The same thing goes for the Amiga...   
      
    EV> Soldering new capacitors on a Commodore 64 printed circuit shouldn't   
    EV> be too hard to do. Finding the capacitors might be the hard part if   
    EV> You don't have any place near by to buy them.   
      
   There's always the internet... But much too much work for a machine I won't be   
   using! ;)   
      
    EV> If a electrolytic capacitor POPS it is easy to see which one on the PC   
    EV> Board gave up the ghost. And then there is the smell.......   
      
   I've seen it and I have smelled it... :-/ ;)   
      
   Bye, Wilfred.   
      
      
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