Re: Another Zip story, episode 2...

[bazyar@netcom.com (Jawaid Bazyar)]

o9938156@wsuaix.csc.wsu.edu (mark lyon) writes:

>I then tried just a single sheet of aluminum foil, attached to
>the back of the board with double-stick tape.  This gave the
>best results yet (fewest crashes), but the computer would
>still crash after a while.  Other than that, I don't know
>how to increase the capacitance further, without finding
>the offending lines & attaching capacitors to them.  

  That's a bad idea, since you _want_ motion on data and address
lines (well, from 0->5 V). Small (.01uF) caps might help here,
but would really clutter up the board.

  It is beginning to look like only low-power SRAMs will do the
trick on a Zip.. but I'd still like to know why.

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