Re: Follow-up: 6502 deaths?

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

"ruud.dingemans" writes ...
> 
> Rubywand wrote:
> > > Now my A2 first beeps at boot and then the usual prompt appears.
> > > It was the processor (thank Andy!)
> 
> >
> >      Thanks for posting the info on your fix!
> 
> Strange, really. I don't think fall-out rate for 6502's (compared to
> other chips) is all that big. (I had two from old Atari arcades, which
> had really been manhandled, touched with fingers, lying in a steel box,
> etc., and still they worked.
> 
> Regards, Ruud


     The same notion occurred to me. The odds that a bad 6502 will be the
cause of Apple II malfunctioning seem to be very small.

     It's a good thing Sabino had a flash of intuition to try swapping in
another uP!



Rubywand