Re: PET-2001 showing just '?' on screen

From: Ville Laustela <ville.laustela_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2016 20:12:21 +0300
Message-Id: <39A10966-2142-4D89-AE06-0E93A942C1E7@gmail.com>
Hi.

Ok, finally some more information on this.

I have only my horrendous-quality phone camera available, so I couldn’t get any good photos. Some reasonably readable ones are now here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/oxdrc9botilxqto/AABdl6NaEsB3WHJlV8R7it6Ga?dl=0

On the first photo is the reversed ?, which always appears at the same spot. It would have made sense if it appeared around the BASIC banner, but it doesn’t, it’s on the lower right quadrant of the screen. The display has serious burn-in, it appears to have been used in some kind of measurement system with the same program running all the time burning into the screen.

What I tried today:
- the RESET line of he 6502 starts low, and the jumps and stays high during reset.
- tested with another 6502 - no change
- the RAM (TI TMS4108) voltages -5, +5 and +12 are Ok
- without 6522 I get a blank screen
- without one of the ROMs (UD6) I still got the ?-screen

During my earlier attempts I had burnt a 2716 EPROM with the petester.bin image (http://www.verrua.org/pet_repair/). Inserting this in UD9 (should I use it alone without the other ROMs?) results in garbage screen.

I also have a PETvet board (http://www.bitfixer.com/bf/petvet/petvet-operation) but it appears to have such a socket that it doesn’t make good contact with the PETs socket - all I get with it is a garbage screen (and nothing over its serial port).

—
Ville


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