Ebay grrrr #743

[Philip Belben]

Tony Duell wrote:

> Actually, 99% of probelms in old PETs are due to the terrible IC sockets 
> used. I find it best to replace the lot with good turned-pin ones. That 
> may well cure this fault, if not, at least you know that's _not_ the 
> problem (nothing worst that trying to trace logic faults on a PCB with 
> bad connections!).

I'll second that.

Another thing that fails is the power connector, where the wires from 
the transformer and the smoothing capacitor arrive at the motherboard. 
I ended up soldering the wires directly to the pins, and putting another 
connector in the middle of the cable so I could get the board out.

Philip.