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Re: [Fairlight-CMI] restoring a Series IIx

2007-11-28 by jbemond@free.fr

Hi (bonjour ?)

David,

This picture is bad :( bad day for this Q133 ;)

Normaly in Q133(my is R6-CR) you found these chips in location :

D5,6 you found 2x16 EPROM with F8LMRK5
C5,6 you found 2x16 EPROM with Q9FGMRK1

ou found the bin file of this eprom here :
http://egrefin.free.fr/eng/fairlight/cmi2xEpromsE.php

C10 74LS97
C9 74LS158
C8 74LS74
C7 74LS174

C4 74LS03
C3 74LS00

CRYSTAL is SKY 1.8432 MHz


bonne chance ;)

JB

Selon dvdborn <dvdborn@pandora.be>:

> Hi,
>
> I've taken upon me the daunting task of restoring a Series IIx.
>
> When it went into storage it was still working fine. But that was before the
> battery decided
> to spill its acid all over the CPU control card.
>
> I'm guessing that someone else already has done some work on the card since
> it seems
> that some chips are missing. Or is it normal that some sockets on the board
> are not filled?
>
> I've uploaded a picture of the card here:
> http://kunst.phlimburg.be/~dvdborn/CMI_IIx_CPU_card.jpg
>
> Can anyone else please post a picture of their CPU Control card so I can
> compare the 2?
>
> I hope I get this IIx going again. It will give me the chance to own it for a
> substantial
> amount of time and play with it.
>
> BTW, I'm not a qualified technician but I restored my own Emulator III some
> time ago and
> that went well.
>
> Cheers,
> David
> http://dvdborn.blogspot.com
>
>

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