... Hi Andrew The link worked and now I have the assembly manual. Thank you very much. I will have my Elf powered up this evening. That will be worth a ...
Hi John, Glad to hear your SE will be up and going tonight. I'll contact you offline re: the rest. Cheers, Andrew ... address doesn't seem to work. It's a big...
At least some things light up, but it has a way to go before it functions properly. And the keys definitely aren't that color. [Non-text portions of this...
Keep plugging away. Several years ago I had one that worked somewhat intermittently and I found that a 4011 had packed it in. I could make it malfunction by ...
John, You may have already tried this but one thing that happens with socketed ICs over long storage is that a crystaline coating often forms between the pins...
Hello, I am restoring an old board that used machine pined sockets all over the board. When one of the RAM chips was removed the insert from one of the...
Hello Al, They are solder tail sockets. Just hoping that someone may have a few in their parts bins or some older surplus suppliers may have some old stock on...
... I have a number of Robinson Nugent sockets of this type. Most are wire wrap pins (which could be used if your PC board's holes are large enough). I also...
Hello Lee, That is an excellent suggestion to try removing just the one pin. If you have a like socket with solder pins (perhaps the 18-pin one) then I could...
I lost part of the thread here, but I will say that if you have a socket that is not installed, and you need to remove a pin, you don't need heat. Turn the...
... Free. The same identical screw pins are used in sockets from a half dozen manufacturers. I think Augat originated it, and now there are many clones. I have...
... Correct if it's not installed on a PC board -- the pins just press in, and so will press right back out. But I think he has the socket already installed on...
Hello Lee, I do have an older PACE de-soldering station and I can make sure the pin is free from the PCB before trying to press it out. If they are the same...
... JC, I'm intrigued. For my MSI ROM replacement i need to connect pin 27 of my rom to pin one and pin 22 to pin 26. Could popping pins and stacking sockets...
Much as I dislike off-topic messages on the cosmacelf mailing list, I thought I should drop a quick note to let subscribers know that Yahoo seems to have...
Hi all, Longtime reader of this group, love it! I finally got around to ordering the DISK/UART/RTC board for my STG Elf2K, and got it nearly (minus the 16C450...
Are there any 1861's available at a decent price? I asked Bob about getting the GALs for his STG1861, and he suggested that I ask. It would be easier than...
... Absolutely. I do this sort of thing all the time such as adapting a 28-pin ROM into a 24-pin socket and such. What I would to is to take two machined-pin...
Excellent - thanks a million, this will be great! ... From: erd_6502 To: cosmacelf@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, July 11, 2008 10:28 PM Subject: [cosmacelf]...
Hardware Enthusiasts, The machined-Socket thread reminds me of the following. (I've mainly done this with Z-80s. It may take some minor modification for...
Hello! I just brushed the dust off my old ElF II and realized it has been quite a while since I posted here or even looked what's going on. At least judging by...
those are good tips steve. thank you. ... From: Steven Coles To: cosmacelf@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2008 10:39 AM Subject: [cosmacelf]...
... [snip] ... same problem getting the Elf/OS installer to run. ... Thanks for your reply, Charlie. I took your advice and tried EXEC 3000, but I was...
... He has the right idea, but he means "CALL", not exec. "RUN" starts the target program with P=0; "CALL" executes a standard SCRT subroutine call with P=3....
... starts the ... Thanks for the reply, Bob. After reading some more in the manual, I discovered that CALL is the command that must be used to get the Elf/OS...