[vcf-midatlantic] Looking for a mostly working SID chip

Joseph Oprysko joprysko1 at gmail.com
Thu Jun 29 12:24:15 EDT 2017


I have like 5-6 C64's in my storage. As far as I know, they all work.  One
someone "fixed" at one point but never put the screws back in.  You'd be
welcome to take it apart for parts

On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 9:37 PM Dean Notarnicola via vcf-midatlantic <
vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:

> If you only need it for music, I have a SwinSID
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 9:35 PM Jason Perkins via vcf-midatlantic <
> vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
>
> > Chris,
> >
> > I saw that seems to be about the going rate. I was hoping to get a mostly
> > working one for somewhat less than that.
> >
> > -J
> >
> > On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 8:23 PM, Chris Fala <chrisjpf33 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Not sure I can spare one (my C64s are very disorganized right now), but
> > > wanted to let you know that the going price for a SID on eBay is around
> > > $40. If you find one cheaper than that, grab it.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Jun 24, 2017, at 4:57 PM, Jason Perkins via vcf-midatlantic <
> > > vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > My new-to-me C64 has a very failed 6581 SID. 2 voices are bad (one is
> > > mostly stuck on), it gets super hot, and after running for a while it
> > makes
> > > the machine lock up.
> > >
> > > Does anyone have a mostly-working SID they would want to part with?
> > >
> > > PS: Sidbench shows just how broken this one is. I was rather bummed
> since
> > > this seems to be a low hour C64. https://www.youtube.com/watch?
> > > v=nU88B_mWQM8
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > --
> > > Jason Perkins
> > > 313 355 0085
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Jason Perkins
> > 313 355 0085
> >
>
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