Ok..now that I have a little more time I thought I'd explain myself a little better. As fate may have it, a friend of a friend had a dead PET 2001 here in Japan, and when I spoke with him on the phone he said he was fine if I took the motherboard. He told me that he had no desire to actually have a 'working' machine (strange!!!), but he wants to keep his machine and if I fix his board then he'd need me to find him another non working board as a replacement. So if anyone has one that is in bad shape, I'll take it. Anyway, he posted me the board, and it arrived a few days ago, and it seems to be a standard REV B board (unlike the Japanese board that I'm hoping to send to Ethan soon). I spent a good part of Saturday troubleshooting it. Initially the screen was just random characters, this is good news as it confirms that my power supply is actually working. My monitor does seem to have a crazy wobble which I'll also need to fix at some point. After spending quite some time first cleaning the grubby board, then swapping around and replacing the 2114 rams it suddenly sprang to life!!!! GREAT!!! First thing I noticed was that there were many keys not working or working sporadically, however I was still able to quickly write a 'hello world' program to confirm that the basic was function correctly. All seemed good until I tried to load a tape. After typing 'LOAD' and pressing return the computer would freeze. I would not get the 'press play now' message, and the tape drive would no longer function. Turning the machine off and on again brought the machine back to life, and the tape drive was able to move again through FF, REW and PLAY buttons. Typing LOAD or SAVE would lock everything up again. Now for more bad news. Today as I was running a simple for next loop the screen suddenly went blank. I pressed the run/stop button and there was the flashing cursor, however, whatever I type doesn't show up on screen, it's as if I'm typing spaces. I restarted the machine again, and after all my hard work I was devastated to see that the 'Commodore Basic' greeting screen was not displaying either, just the flashing cursor. looking closely at the character ROM, it seems to have been replaced with and adaptor with another ROM soldered (not socketed) to the top of that. On the adaptor is written '2316E PCB ADPTR'. The ROM is an old ceramic type with gold legs and the top is rusted up enough so that it is impossible to tell exactly what it is :-( Anyway, I'm guessing that maybe the character generator ROM has died??? As for the LOAD/SAVE tape freezes, I have no idea. If anyone has any thoughts, please let me know. Thanks for your time. Phil On Nov 7, 2009, at 1:43 PM, Philip Lord wrote: > OK, I've downgraded my request. > Now I'm looking for a non-functional Pet 2001b motherboard, any > condition (can be missing parts) > > Thanks in advance. > > Phil > > On Nov 5, 2009, at 5:06 PM, Philip Lord wrote: > >> Sorry for the delayed reply. I just moved apartments and have only >> just got internet up and running. I've been surviving on my iphone, >> but it wouldn't allow me to post to the list. >> >> Ruud, thanks for the offer, I really appreciate it, however Ethan >> has kindly offered to take a look at my board. >> The computer is still packed away in one of the many boxes that are >> scattered around the rooms. 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