Re: 250466 PCB curiousness

From: Jim Brain <brain_at_jbrain.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2019 09:47:56 -0500
Message-ID: <acb32faf-4cb7-936c-c379-b84ea64e681c_at_jbrain.com>
On 7/8/2019 9:29 AM, Gerrit Heitsch wrote:
> On 7/7/19 9:43 PM, Jim Brain wrote:
>> Memory in a 250466 PCB went flaky, so I tried my hand at repair.  The 
>> PCB is the 3 ROM version, but with 4164 DRAMs.  After desoldering the 
>> DRAMs, socketing, and installing some new DRAMs (all working now), I 
>> decided to see if I could switch the unit over to SRAM.  It appears I 
>> and some other folks had similar ideas, as I see another project on 
>> Facebook to convert as well.  I went a different direction and 
>> leveraged a small CPLD to do the conversion. 
>
> That's a bit Overkill, you need just 2 TTLs to make it work. A 
> 74HCT573 and a 74LS32 or 74LS04 (*) will do the trick.

Of course, but if I was just wanting to replace the DRAM with SRAM, Pasi 
already built a nice board to do exactly that :-) I wanted some 
programmable logic in there so I can play with things, as you might now 
see in the list postings.


> Sure it does:
>
> http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/schematics/computers/c64/252278-1.gif 
>
>
> http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/schematics/computers/c64/252278-2.gif 
>

Yeah, I missed a word there.  I meant a _legible_ one.  The service 
manual has a legible one, so I was able to verify.

Jim
Received on 2020-05-29 22:35:19

Archive generated by hypermail 2.3.0.