I've been tracking it.
Overall I've spent £239.91.
Out of that, £92.47 was the scope/meters/Arduino so I've still got all of that.
Also, I tended to overegg my Cricklewood orders in case I cocked anything up, so i have several new ICs and sockets left over, along with a replacement 6502 (£15) that I bought just in case.
I will have to buy some paint yet to restore the case - if anyone happens to know a good match for Commodore PET cases, that would be good.
Before we finally call this thread a day, I will put up a summary of the whole event from my point of view, along with what was replaced and what was purchased.
Colin.
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Originally Posted by SiriusHardware
Quite pricey for the time, some of those. I remember thinking it was a black day when, after years of Spectrum titles costing about £5, Ultimate-Play The Game suddenly decided they could get away with charging £9.99. And that was several years later.
I notice you said you'd paid £25 for the PET originally, although you had to drive quite a long way to pick it up. I wonder if you've dared to add up the real cost of the repair? I suppose it's not too bad if you look on it as a kind of open-university course in computer repair with a working computer thrown in at the end.
Plus you now own a few useful tools, such as your scope, which is such a universally handy thing to have that it doesn't really count as part of the cost of the PET project.
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