Jan Beta on Nostr: Both RAM chips and the Kernal/BASIC ROM were bad in this one. I suspected the 8500 ...
Both RAM chips and the Kernal/BASIC ROM were bad in this one. I suspected the 8500 processor at first (after seeing some data lines misbehaving on the scope) but that turned out to be fine. #BlueScreenOfLife #InTheLabDoingStuff #Commodore64 #Repair #RetroComputing #VintageComputing
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