One of my students is having a problem in assembling their HB: Downloading and executing IC works fine _until_ U6 is installed. After installing U6 ('138) the GRN LED doesn't quite go off when putting the board in bootstrap mode, it glows faintly. (...) (26 years ago, 3-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
I assume you've tried other HC138's, and that it's not a case of a faulty chip? fred In your message you said: (...) (26 years ago, 3-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
Originally I had problems putting my Handy Board into bootstrap mode. The problem seemed to be that we had the wrong power source, and had to keep it in zap mode for it to work properly. (...) (26 years ago, 3-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)