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Well that is interesting. My experience is that about 70% of failures in retro equipment is due to RAM/ROM failure. Dead glue logic is pretty rare (though my last repair was a failed 74LS14 on an MC-10). Custom chips and dead CPU's/VDG's would make up the other 30% of chip failures. I suppose one ex...

Fair enough, I'm glad you found reliable suppliers as there are a few horror stories out there with either completely bogus remarked chips or factory reject chips that have been remarked and have faults out of asia. I have a spare 6561 from the last few I won on Ebay from a gent in the UK. Two were ...

Those chips in my picture are all PAL. :) I'm going to put a few up on eBay as I've not seen any on there, and a few on my shop, and keep others for my repairs. They're all 1984 so they're really late in the production run... I reckon I can get plenty more. You're in the UK, yes? Do you want me to ...

Looks like VIC is dead. Swap with a known good one to confirm.

At school we had a couple of Microbees and some old terminal thing that had punchcard reader attached to it. Might have been a System 2000 or something similar to that. At home the most common was the C64, followed by the ZX Spectrum I'd say with a sprinkling of CoCo's and Atari's here and there. VZ...

I guess I won't be making a Behr-Bonz 64 then. I planned on making a 127 games cart for a similar price. Couldn't you just make a C64 cart with 127 different games? It's not as though there aren't plenty of games to choose from. One of the things that struck me about this Multicart 64 is how much i...

I found one of those in Australia, all wrapped up in it's perfect condition box and looked unused and new. It didn't work however and it had a non-C= power supply still wrapped in plastic and with the cables still factory tied. I ended up giving it away in a bulk sale of stuff about a decade ago as ...

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Clockmeister wrote:Besides, WDC have dropped their online ordering system and you now have to source them from one of their distributors.

AFAIK, Mouser distributes the W65XX family of chips from WDC and they do ship through USPS which is relatively cheap.

Yep, about $12 shipped, definitely the way to go now.

Not for international purchases, their postage and handling charges were pure extortion!

Besides, WDC have dropped their online ordering system and you now have to source them from one of their distributors.

Just buy them off Ebay like everyone else does. About $8 posted and NOS brand new. Probably cheaper if you search for those alternative part numbers.

They work perfectly.

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Does anyone remember a program to play music cassettes through the C2N connected to your computer? Or was that for the C64? I seem to remember a magazine, maybe RUN, that had a program to do this. You wouldn't get audio as the analog signal is converted to TTL level signals but I suppose it could b...

I should have something for him.

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The VZ300 looks like typical VTech junk, but worse! I sincerely hope nobody pays good money for this landfill fodder. Plenty of people would consider a VIC-20 landfill fodder so that is an interesting comment considering the forum you posted it in. But then considering who posted that comment, why ...

Yep, I have a VZ300 setup consisting of a VZ300, original tape drive, VZ200 RAM expansion that I modified to work switch selectable with both VZ200/VZ300 to it's full expansion capacity. I also have the printer interface and various software on tape. My particular VZ is on my website at http://users...

If that is the sort of detail you wanted originally, that is the sort of detail you should have asked for - originally