Re: Heisenbugs in my Tempest

From: Franklin Bowen <Franklin_at_Bowen.net>
Date: Sun Aug 14 2011 - 10:07:34 EDT

+1 for leaving it alone.

Oh, and if you want to make it fail, have people over to play it! ;-)

On 8/13/2011 7:57 PM, Christopher X. Candreva wrote:
> The recent posts about cleaning POKEY pins inspired me to try to fix my
> Tempest tonight. It had all the symptoms fo either bad or dirty POKEYs, or
> at least it did as I recall.
>
> Because when I went to turn it on toinight for a pre-teardown test, the
> *!@&!@! thing had the gall to just WORK ! :-)
>
> As I recall the problems were no enmies ever comming up and the spinner
> continualy spinning on it's own. However it had been a while.
>
> So I have a delima: Pull the chips and clean them anyway, or wait for it to
> break again ?
>
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