From: thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: DRUN patch didn't - con't
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 06:10:27 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

In article <16846A423.R1004@vmcms.csuohio.edu> R1004@vmcms.csuohio.edu
writes:
 
| [...]
|       I did find, however, my resistor is 4.7 rather than 4.75 as
| requested in the instructions.  Could the .05 difference cause me
| this sort of problem?

Given the callout for a 1% part, the timing aspect of the circuit would
appear to be critical.

Given that I had to buy a strip of 100 resistors when I did the experiments,
if anyone wants some, lemme know.  A strip of 100 cost me $1.00 for the
strip.  Given that I used 5 and want to keep some for spares, let's say that
80 resistors are available to the first 80 people who send me a SASE (that's
a SELF-ADDRESSED STAMPED-ENVELOPE; my taping a resistor to a postcard is NOT
guaranteed to make it through the US Mails :-)

Also, the capacitor at C252 should be clipped-out (my original instructions
notwithstanding); I have 2 modified systems with the capacitor still in place,
but factory-done DRUN mods have the capacitor removed; I suspect there's a
reason for that.

AGAIN, if you'd like a 4.75K 1% resistor for R63 for FREE, send a SASE for EACH
resistor you want, and enclose a blank sheet of paper so that the envelope
will have some "substance" as it passes through the mail.  The first 80
requests with a SASE will be fulfilled by my taping a resistor to the sheet
of paper, inserting the paper with resistor into the SASE, and dropping the
SASE into a mailbox.  Given that US postage is 29 cents to send a SASE to me
and that the SASE's postage will also be 29 cents, this isn't exactly "FREE"
to you but is a way to help those who are stuck with minimum orders at "normal"
electronics distributors.

Please only avail yourself of this offer if you're unable to get the resistor
from local sources.  Dunno what I'd do if more than 80 requests come in; any
suggestions?  Ask my secretary to put a perfumed lipstick print on the paper
or sumtin'? :-)  [OOPS, that (the lipstick print offer) will probably cause
some eleventy-seven bazillion requests to come in, so please forget I ever
mentioned it! :-)]

If you want to send a SASE (with a paper "carrier") for a resistor, mail to:

	Thad Floryan
	1522 Wistaria Lane
	Los Altos, CA  94024-7265

When the supply of 80 resistors is depleted, that's it.  Sorry.

Be sure YOUR address on the SASE is clear; that's what the Postal Service
will use to deliver it to you.

Please clearly mark on the envelope (someplace) "DRUN resistor" so that I'll
know what to do with it.  One envelope per resistor, please; this is deliberate
so that everyone who needs one can get one.

Thad

P.S. My email is still thad@btr.com (OR) {decwrl, mips, fernwood}!btr!thad,
it's just that I happened to be logged-onto Portal and saw the item about the
DRUN patch resistor problem.

P.P.S. These "rules" aren't inflexible; if you really need more than one
resistor, let me know and I'll tape up to, say, 5 onto the paper which goes
into the SASE.  I just happen to have 80 more resistors than I'll ever need,
so I'd rather share them with people who can use them than to just have them
sitting foreever in a parts bin gathering dust.  Please ask for only the
number of resistors you really need, as I'm fully aware there are 3B1 users
in areas where esoteric parts such as 1% resistors are NOT readily available.

Thad Floryan [ thad@cup.portal.com ]
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1