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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.                     --- FMail-W32-1.69.11.142-B20151009        * Origin: Native IPv6 connectable node (2:280/464)    |
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