22 Nov 2002, 14:58, MIKE ROSS (1:167/133), wrote to Matt Mc_Carthy:

Hi MIKE.

 MM>> A friend's old 1986 Williams "Defender" recently died after
.......

 MR> 1986? You're talking about almost 3 decades. The usual culprits 
 MR> for the failures is dirty contacts. I have a few early Coleco, Atari, 
 MR> & Sega game controllers which are still running. They just need the 
 MR> occasional cleaning of contacts mostly. I still remember when the 
 MR> original Pong came out in the mid 70's, what a fun game it was at the 
 MR> time!

Pulling and re-seating all the connectors and socketed chips was my first
step also.  No go though, although I did get different colored bars on the
screen!  It did get the sound board working though, and thankfully I found
the volume control!

There are a set of three AA cells for the setup CMOS that are dated 1994,
and are pretty dead (no leakage though!).  This may be preventing the
startup routines from being accessed, and causing the boot problem.  Will
learn more as time goes on...   :-)


     Thanks, M.

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