#: 13706 S1/General Interest
    27-Dec-91  12:59:46
Sb: #13699-#Dead CoCo3
Fm: Erich Schulman 75140,3175
To: Paul Rinear 73757,1413 (X)

I see my biggest problem as being the small spaces involved.  I have so far
never worked with much beyond tubes and transistors (esp. TO-3, TO-92, and
TO-220 cases) as far as soldering goes.  I did once desolder a 14-pin DIP on a
board that was cracked so whatever might happen as a result of the experience
didn't matter much.  I didn't even know what that board was for. Except for
(un)plugging chips nearly all my hardware work has been with amplifiers and
other big things.  I'm really not having a problem with 4164 DRAMs.  I do need
eight.  I have so far found four or five sources. Upgrading the CoCo1 to 16,
32, or 64K won't help much if I don't add Extended BASIC too.  My biggest
problem is with getting a 24-pin ECB chip. They seem totally unobtainable.  (I
have been told to get a CoCo2 instead of trying to upgrade the 1.  I've checked
the papers nearly every day for months and never see a Color Computer at all.)

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