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Re: [TenTec] Paragon is it dead?

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Subject: Re: [TenTec] Paragon is it dead?
From: Louis Ciotti <lciotti1@gmail.com>
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Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 20:30:10 -0400
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Thanks Mike.

I scoped out those two ICs (U10 and U111), and they appear to be functioning fine, at least the signals coming out of them look like TTL logic.



Mike Bryce wrote:
FYI….

The last Paragon I worked on had about the same issues. I traced the problem to two common 
CD4000 series ICs in the rear left corner of the mother board. It’s been so long that 
I don’t remember the number of the chips. They are common off the shelf parts.

That cured the goofy logic board problem.

MIke, WB8VGE


Mike Bryce
prosolar@sssnet.com



On Sep 14, 2016, at 12:42 PM, Louis Ciotti<lciotti1@gmail.com>  wrote:

Fresh battery is in place.

I really thing it is either a dead CPU or the EEPROM got scrambled.  I
found a source for a low cost CPU so I ordered it.

When looking at the signals with the O'scope, the IRQ line does not look
right:

https://goo.gl/photos/6ohJcT8Lu4qrSsVp9

All the other logic line look nice with out the finky ripple on the lines.
If I remove the CPU this line goes to nice smooth a logic high, which is
what ll the digital line with a logic high on it look like.

If I swap the CPU and that does not cure it, I am going to say the EEPROM
is dead.

I wonder if TenTec would have the source code for the 6805 assembly code,
or the EPROM image stored somehwere and I can re-burn since it looks like I
can still get the eprom as well, I just would need to get a burner.



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