Thanks! It was very satisfying and not the worst thing to go wrong for a beginner.
I was also quite surprised that such a simple component would die, and what I find more confusing is that it died while I was using the machine. Aaron. Noel Chiappa via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > From: Aaron Jackson > > > Picked up a few 555s and sockets and now it works! > > Congratulations! > > It's odd that a 555 failed, but sometimes there's no rhyme or reason to what > fails. E.g. I was fixing some broken M7859's (KY11-LB Programmer's Console), > and on one of them a 7493 (4-bit counter) had died. That's not one of the > 'problem' 74xx chips, like ISTR the 7474 being? > > Noel