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In article <1990Sep11.0...@lavaca.uh.edu> j...@karazm.math.uh.edu (J. Eric Townsend) writes:
>I had a roommate (hi Phaed) who, as a monthly ritual, took apart his
>Radio Shack CoCoII and cleaned every cardedge and contact.  If
>he ever skipped a month, there was an inevitable failure of some
>item on the bus.

I had to do this periodically with my TI-99/4A.  The cartridge slot would
freak out otherwise.

>When the Atari ST first came out, a common "debugging process" when
>an ST was on the fritz was to unplug any peripheral devices and drop
>the unit onto a table from about 6".  This was to reset the chips.
>(I watched a friend do this while on the phone to an Atari support
>person.  It was done at the Atari-dood's direction.)

Atari's cartridge slot was a part of the mother board.  As I heard it, using
cartridges loosened the chips slowly.  I never heard of dropping it, but
people did tear them apart and push the chips back in.

>Just last week, a friend of mine had a PC's Limited XT go out of
>whack.  We called Dell (the current owner/name of PC's Limited)
>customer support (on a 5 year old machine :-) and one of the
>first things the support tech said to do was clean all of the
>card edges with an eraser.  (He didn't say to clean the eraser
>first, but we did that anyway. :-)

Something else to do.

	Darrin

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