NISMOPC Posted July 6, 2017 Share Posted July 6, 2017 Decided to get back into the 8-bit action. Pulled out my original 800XL and 1050 Disk Drive. Also recently purchased a 65XE that failed memory test. Desoldered all of the memory chips and replaced with sockets. Waiting on new chips to arrive any day now. Also waiting on a composite video out and SIO RS232 to USB cable. 800XL 65XE Misc Items (Boxes of catalogs, magazines, manuals, a TI-99/4A and TI Program Recorder) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NISMOPC Posted July 7, 2017 Author Share Posted July 7, 2017 (edited) SUCCESS!! New (old stock) Texas Instruments RAM installed in the 65XE... Went straight to READY prompt at start-up. Restarted in Self Test. PASSED. Tested cartridge. PASSED. Tested 1050 drive. PASSED. Today's a good day. Now on to more... EDIT: Oh RAM, oh so beautiful RAM. Edited July 8, 2017 by NISMOPC 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NISMOPC Posted July 17, 2017 Author Share Posted July 17, 2017 Some more goodies... 130XE just delivered today - ebay purchase. Stated no power. Came with no accessories or cables... ...plugged it in and it passed Self Test. Moved on to connecting my cheap SIO2PC RS232 cable and... And current Atari Jr. collection. (Acquired all within last 2 weeks) My ("our") original Atari 2600 and prob a library of 60+ carts is currently in my brothers possession sitting in a bin in his basement. now to convince him he no longer wants it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
high voltage Posted July 18, 2017 Share Posted July 18, 2017 Wow, it looks great, love the 130XE setup 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+-^CrossBow^- Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 Now you need to pop in the old ram chips one by one to find out which ones were actually bad. That way you have hot spares on hand! Nice setup with the XE units! I need to AV mod my 130xe soon. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NISMOPC Posted August 26, 2017 Author Share Posted August 26, 2017 Updated my set-up and added quite a bit to my collection... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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