Re: Dating a C-64 board

From: William Levak (wlevak_at_cyberspace.org)
Date: 1999-04-18 05:46:07

On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, Ethan Dicks wrote:

> I'm in the process of clean-up and consolidation, as I mentioned earlier.  I
> re-found an old C-64 board of mine and I'm trying to place it in its historical
> context.  I know it's old because it has a 5-pin DIN for a video connector.

Only the original board had the 5 pin connector.  This version was not
compatible with PAL and was not sold in Europe.
 
> Inside, the board says Rev B in copper.  Were any Rev A boards released?

That must refer to the artwork and not the board itself as all rev. B
boards had 8 pin connectors.

> The PLA has a typed sticker that says...
> 
>     C64
>     REV2
>     7E17
 
The first PLA's for the C64 had paper labels with various numbers.  All
the C64 PLA's are functionally equivalent.  These must be batch numbers as
Commodore always sold the PLA under the same part number.

> U5 is p/n 901225-01, U4 is p/n 901227-01, and U3 is p/n 901226-01, all soldered
> in place.
 
That's the first version of the ROM's

> U19, the VIC chip, has a date code of 2482 and no revision on the 6567 p/n.
> 
> The only remaining anomaly is a wire-wrap wire trailing from pin 28 of the
> 6510 socket.  I suspect I put that there for my Batteries Plus IEEE-488 cart.
> 

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