"Matt Mc_carthy" wrote to "Roy J. Tellason" (11-21-02  00:19)
 --- on the topic of "ram parts"

 MM> A friend's old 1986 Williams "Defender" recently died after
 MM> his wife moved it between three rooms about a dozen times.
 MM> Now the poor tired old Z-80 fails to boot...  I only spent
 MM> three days finding my logic probe, now to remember how to
 MM> use it...    :-)

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

 Mike
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... A mind is a terrible thing to ...OOOH a new video game!

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