#: 13999 S1/General Interest
    18-Jan-92  22:26:07
Sb: #13986-#Death of a CoCo3 II
Fm: Erich Schulman 75140,3175
To: Kevin Darling 76703,4227 (X)

The first time I upgraded to 512K, the upgrade took *days* to complete, not the
five minutes the ad said it would be.  The second time I upgraded the same
CoCo3 (retrograded?) to 512K, it took hours.  Believe me, I have experienced
every possible and every conceivable problem in installing the 512K plus 2 or 3
more.  A suggestion from Dave Myers of CoCoPRO! helped some, viz. putting
electrical tape on the RF box to preclude the board from grounding out.  So
I've been through it all, checked it all, been through it all again, and so on
ad infinitum/nauseum.  Chris Hawks of Hawksoft diagnosed one of my problem
areas as being the CoCo3's power supply being insufficient for the job and
causing my problems which does seem entirely possible.  So with $90 for a 128K
CoCo3 plus $90 for a replacement Slot Pak 3 plus $70 for a new 512K board plus
$20 for the replacement chips already wasted plus a new power supply plus
shipping/handling charges all topped with hours of work and I end up with
nothing I didn't have before except more watts from the power supply

It's not worth it to me anymore.  BTW, when I had 512K probs before, I at least
got a green screen without sign-on msg.  Now, nothing at all.

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