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From: jal@acc (John Lauro)
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Subject: Re: dead coco
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Date: 6 Nov 90 14:02:04 GMT
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In article <1990Nov5.215152.28456@cbnewse.att.com> gmark@cbnewse.att.com (gilbert.m.stewart) writes:
>My coco seems to have died.  At powerup, ampersands and such appear on
>the screen, whose black border and green background look normal.  I
>guess it's the ROM.  Anybody know where the cheapest place to get
>a coco I ROM nowadays?  Since the background looks okay, can I safely
>say it's the extended BASIC ROM rather than the "stock" original ROM?
>

I never seen a ROM in a CoCo go bad.  To me, it sounds more like the SAM
chip or CPU.  It could also be a memory chip, but that would tends to
cause mostly everything to be the same (like an &), but have a some
characters different.

   - John_Lauro@ub.cc.umich.edu