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Re: Disassembly update - II

2006-06-21 by mark_r_abcd

> as i understand it, they all use a synth-on-a-chip architecture, with
one
> chip per voice. apparently those chips are starting to die en masse.
>

This is true, ebay regularly sees Juno 106s with "every 6th note
missing" faults caused by a faulty 80017A chip. However, there's
several suppliers who have reverse-engineered it and produce
replacement modules made using modern parts (a search for
80017A will find plenty).

Cheers

mark-r

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