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By GENE BELEY
The winds of revolu tion are blowing.
In the coin-operated game field, until recent! .
you could fix alm o t any electro-mechanical ma-
chine with on ly th help of a schematic, screw-
drivers a pair of wire cutters. point file an i
point-ben ders.
inet per cent of the time, ex -
perienced op rators probably don't even need the
s h matic or more than one of those tool to fix
the machine. uch ingenius operator are equiva-
lent to th e
arly aviators who flew b
the
at-of-their-pant b fore ophi ticated navigational
instruments were introduced.
Now, with the intr duction of video and mor
solid-state games. the need for highly ophi ti -
cated tool becomes a pparent. I n fact, mo t oper-
ator mu t learn how to repair their own logic
board and
ideo problems [0 survive in the
marketplace.
Prob .
cillo cope. Logic prints. New word in
an operator vocabular. ew word. new t o ols for
a tota ll new era.
What cool doe a n operator need to begin
repairing olid-statc game ?
Jim Tomei, video game technician, .A . Robin-
on &
mpan, a large di tributor in Lo Angele.
first expre se a hope that more mechanic will
take courses in ba ic electronic. As for [001 . the
basic he recommend are:
- low \ attage oldering iron:
- video probe;
- logic probe.
LYLE LOWDEN. of Redondo Beach. California. another
one of the first class of students in the new Comit school.
works on a logic board. using a solder sucker to remove the
molten solder from his work area. prior to freeing the
desired component. Lowden. whose prior experience is in
the electronics field outside the game industry. came to the
Comit Institute of Technology "because this is a flew
technology just opening and I want to get into it now."
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