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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. | 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. | I did the work and the result can be seen in the picture above. | ||
after inserting eight new 4116 the Spectrum worked flawless. | after inserting eight new 4116 the Spectrum worked flawless. | ||
Revision as of 23:12, 25 March 2025
| Project Sinclair Spectrum 16K RAM repair | |
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| repair of a Sinclair spectrum 48 K that has become unreliable | |
| Status | Initializing |
| Contact | mahjongg |
| Last Update | 2025-03-25 |
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.