GBeaman
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- Joined
- Jun 13, 2006
- Location
- Marble Falls, TX
Hi all... I need an ingenuitive solution here. My 1985 bostomatic 312 is running well on its newer CPU board. All is well except for the file transfer. It will transfer a file out of memory but not into it. Otherwise I only have a Paper Tape reader to access memory. I sent the CPU out to a repair facility and the technician found the problematic part. He referred to it as a "discrete component". I believe it is not an IC but some other component in the circuit. Anyways, he has been at it for a month now and says he is having trouble locating this old component. My initial thought was I need a new repair man! He gave me the run around like this, one other time before. So now what? I guess BTR is an option, but RS232 sure would be easier (and cheaper). I was told by a different person that it might be possible to build a small circuit board with modern parts that would replace the outdated circuit on my CPU. The CPU is dated 1991 by the way. So that gives you a time frame to ancient. Any other thoughts from you technical guru's that know a whole lot more then me. Is there some other cheap way to get a program into and out of memory or a cheap way to get what I have fixed? I am thinking I might mail it out next, but mailing off the CPU means downtime. Which isn't that big a deal but I am going to go nuts if it is another 2 months of looking at this neat money maker that is absolutely worthless without a CPU. Also the repair was supposed to be in the $100 range if parts were available, so I really don't want to drop a grand on a BTR if I don't really need to. Thanks in advance.
-Greg Beaman
-Greg Beaman