Partially-bad chips; was: repairing early HP calcs
Tony Duell
ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk
Tue Dec 20 12:35:51 CST 2005
> Back in the days when DRAM was precious, Intel had some "8Kx1" DRAMs that
> were really "half good" 16K parts. You used the "-x" digit to determine
There were certainly 32K*1 DRAMs that were half-good 64K chips. IIRC at
least one version of the 48K Spectrum used them, and there was a link on
the board to select which half would be used (obviously all 8 chips had
to be of the same type). I suspect the CoCo1 used them too.
-tony
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