[sdiy] I fixed my MC-202!!!!

[mark verbos]

Hi everybody,

I bought an MC-202 in 1993. It was still in the box. Sometime around 
1996 it started to have this problem. The screen would show crazy chaos 
like the watch the beast wears in Predator. If I leaned on the tempo 
knob, the screen would go back to normal. I tried in vain on several 
occasions to fix it.

Today I found that there was a hairline crack in the solder UNDER one 
leg of the 64 pin microprocessor. When I had tested before, I put the 
meter probe on top of it, pushing the leg into the solder. So I didn't 
notice it. I fixed it!!!!!!!!!!

Then I put it all the way together again and some of the buttons had 
stopped working. It seems I cracked one of the ribbon cables when I 
flipped it over so many times. This was a quick fix though.

EVERYTHING WORKS NOW>

Mark

PS. This is not the first thing I've fixed, it has just taken the longest.