Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!nuchat!flatline!erict
From: erict@flatline.UUCP (J. Eric Townsend)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Dead C64 -- Any ideas?
Message-ID: <780@flatline.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jun 89 22:13:45 GMT
Reply-To: erict@flatline.UUCP (J. Eric Townsend)
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First rule of computing:  Don't trust your computer to an EE student,
no matter how sure they are that they can build something. :-)

A so-called "friend" of mine offered to build a really snazzy RS232
adapter for my C64 so I could hook it directly to my Unix box.  This
"friend" shorted out something on the serial port and killed the
C64.

Here're the symptoms (the unit is a first generation C64, the tan ones,
with most of the chips socketed):

Power switch on:  LED comes on, the drive spins/led light comes on, screen
gets a flicker from somewhere.
And that's all it does.

Any suggestions?


-- 
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