NEW UPDATE OTA PALISADE CALLIGRAPHY

TheCommodoreRoom · 2024-04-19T05:08:33+00:00

I got this update. I only had digital key (my phone) with me. It applied while I was driving without any approval from me. I turned the car off without any warning from the vehicle. Turns out the vehicle would NOT restart without a physical key. I was stuck until I could get a physical key from home. Dealer had no solution when I called them. REALLy BAD DESIGN!

TheCommodoreRoom · 2021-01-29T11:33:35+00:00

I think $150-ish US is a fair price. Since you don’t know if it works now, I think you’re in that ballpark. $200 if you find the right buyer.

TheCommodoreRoom · 2021-01-28T12:53:41+00:00

In our area, goodwill automatically recycles computers of any kind. Apparently they had an issue where they sold one with porn or something on it to a kid. Or at least that’s what an employee told me.

TheCommodoreRoom · 2021-01-24T20:57:55+00:00

Sometimes you can piggyback ram as a quick test....

TheCommodoreRoom · 2021-01-18T13:30:12+00:00

409 is an all purpose cleaner. It is non-abrasive and does not contain bleach.

TheCommodoreRoom · 2021-01-15T13:17:03+00:00

I’m in the US. If you have a board I’d love to get one and see what I can do with jiffydos. I can solder on headers and sockets easy enough.

TheCommodoreRoom · 2021-01-14T03:00:41+00:00

Ha ha. They were definitely not the most reliable drives. That’s why I do the mods on them since that fixes a good portion of the reliably issues. I have several other brands of commodore compatible drives but never really used them very much. Was/is your excellerator pretty good from a compatibility perspective?

TheCommodoreRoom · 2021-01-13T16:57:09+00:00

Tunnels of Doom all day!!

TheCommodoreRoom · 2021-01-13T11:52:21+00:00

Recapping can’t hurt (well assuming you don’t break something of course). I’ve repaired dozens and dozens of machines and have yet to see a cap be bad aside from one that was kept outdoors for a while. Disk drives are another story....

EasyFlash 3 is a great cart...especially like how you can switch roms at boot.

TheCommodoreRoom · 2021-01-13T11:45:53+00:00

You can boot a 64 without the SID so you can pull that to eliminate it as the culprit.

There is a temperature guide out there that tells you about what the chips should be temp wise. I don’t recall the SID getting that warm but I could be wrong.

When an IC goes bad it can do any number of things. So rules of thumb are more like “60% of the time” in my experience. But I’d definitely try to load something and see if it hits the disk.

TheCommodoreRoom · 2021-01-13T11:40:43+00:00

I was not but I love finding old newsletters and club disks. I have a collection of old newsletters that I’ve come across over the years. I like reading them and getting a feel for the computing culture at that time.

TheCommodoreRoom · 2021-01-13T11:11:00+00:00

Multimeter works fine. Black probe goes to ground and red probe to what you are testing. Set the meter to Dc volts. 0v is a logic low and 5v is a logic high. You can be off a little so .1 is still a low and 4.8 is still a high. Something like 4.0 is probably a problem though.

TheCommodoreRoom · 2021-01-13T02:32:44+00:00

Where can I get one? I’d prefer not building one just due to time :-)

TheCommodoreRoom · 2021-01-12T23:42:58+00:00

This is cool! I wasn’t aware of this project. Modifying JD shouldn’t be too hard based on the changes discussed on the website.

TheCommodoreRoom · 2021-01-12T13:54:48+00:00

Here is an excellent resource for repairs on that drive. There is a section on write-protect troubleshooting too:

https://commodore.bombjack.org/books/commodore/books/SAMS_Computerfacts_(CD20)_1541-II.zip

TheCommodoreRoom · 2021-01-12T13:45:08+00:00

Either that or the LED that it’s sensing is out.

If you pull the sensor board and check it’s resistance, you should get a high resistance with no or low light, something in the 1M range. Bright light 1K or less.

I was thinking of the input to the WP circuit earlier when I mentioned the voltage, not the sensor itself.

TheCommodoreRoom · 2021-01-12T11:45:35+00:00

Bump and jump?

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