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The national video game museum in Zoetermeer has an 48 Sinclair spectrum with a built in Casthe picture aboveduino but recently it became unreliable, it seems the 4116 RAM chips had became unreliable and even a small mecahnical bump on the tale could lead to a system crash. So we decoded to remove the RAM chips, and replace them with dual wipe sockets, and install new 4116 chips.
I did the work and the result can be seen in the picture above.
after inserting eight new 4116 the Spectrum worked flawless.

Revision as of 23:12, 25 March 2025

Project Sinclair Spectrum 16K RAM repair
repair of a Sinclair spectrum 48 K that has become unreliable
Status Initializing
Contact mahjongg
Last Update 2025-03-25

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The national video game museum in Zoetermeer has an 48 Sinclair spectrum with a built in Casthe picture aboveduino but recently it became unreliable, it seems the 4116 RAM chips had became unreliable and even a small mecahnical bump on the tale could lead to a system crash. So we decoded to remove the RAM chips, and replace them with dual wipe sockets, and install new 4116 chips. I did the work and the result can be seen in the picture above. after inserting eight new 4116 the Spectrum worked flawless.