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a \t!J capacitor end of the sockets. Spectre 128: The ROM marked "342-0341whatever" goes into the socket FARTHEST A WAY from the gold fingers, right next to the little chip on the board. The ROM marked "342-0342-whatever" goes into the socket CLOSEST to the gold fingers, next to the capacitor that goes across the board. Check out Figure 2 to the right. How to Insert Chips Getting It Going Figure 2 Not a lot has been said so far about how to insert chips into sockets. What you want to do is get all 28 legs in there without bending one up, or having it stick out the side. Generally, the chips come to you a little splayed out; the legs point out too much. This can be cured by gently bending them, a wee bit, against a table or whatever. Don't overdo it. And if you blow it, a pair of needlenose pliers will fix many ills. Start one row of 14 pins. Then, push towards that row gently, and get the other row started. Then, push the chip on in. If it really resists hard, you're probably bending a pin; ease up and try again. Next, pick the board up and look between the chip and the socket; there's about 1 /16th inch of space there to look in. You'll be able to see the row of pins. Look for one bent up, bent in, or splayed out. Make sure the chip notch is on the capacitor end of the chip; we have a $10 bet here at the office that I can't write a manual well enough to prevent someone from blowing up their ROMs, so help me out, okay? Do this for both chips. Now, that wasn't so bad, was it? Be sure to press both chips down firmly. If they're only in partway, they won't work. If you're plugging in 64K ROM chips, the 341-0220 chip replaces the 342-0341 chip, and the 341-0221 chip replaces the 342-0342 chip. Once again, the notch goes towards the capacitors. 31
Getting It Going Plugging the Cartridge In Spectre GCR: The chips are face up; there's really only one way to get the board into the plastic, and that's with the chips up. Unlike the 128, you can't get it in upside down. Go ahead and snap the case together. On Mega ST machines, if you've stacked the Mega on top of something (say, a MegaFile hard disk), you'll find that the cartridge will dangle in midair. This doesn't hurt anything, but possibly could make it more sensitive to vibration. You might want to think about putting the Mega on the bottom and thus supporting the GCR cartridge. At this point, run the disk cable from either of the GCR's drive ports to an open ST drive port, but don't plug the cartridge in! This means: .. If you only have an internal floppy, plug the floppy cable from either of the sockets on the GCR to the External Floppy port on the ST. .. If you have external floppies, plug the floppy cable from either of the sockets on the GCR into "the end of the chain" - in other words, the last floppy drive's spare port. .. If you have an external drive with only one port (or just a cable sticking out the back), then plug that cable into either of the sockets on the GCR, then plug the floppy cable from the GCR to the ST. Generally, it's best to put the GCR on the end of the chain, for "signal reflection" reasons, but if you can't, you can't. The floppy disk cable gets the GCR data from the disk drives (which it shoots into the ST through the cartridge port) and sends data coming from the cartridge port out to the disk drives. Thus until the floppy cables are hooked up, the GCR can't talk to disks. The GCR will be able to get to "put in a Mac disk" and if you put in a Spectre Format disk, it works; the GCR just won't be able to deal with Mac disks. Spectre 128: Now here's the key thing to remember: THE CHIPS Go FACE DOWN . This is real important, because if you put it into the ST and power on the ST with the chips up, you'll fry the ROM chips. And they're expensive little critters. 32
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