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ortek_service · 27th Apr 2021, 6:20 pm

Apart from the PSU's mains-filter capacitors suffering from the infamous case-cracking with age, fortunately Beeb's are generally very-reliable even a long-time after they were made. And all the large IC's are usually socketed, so easily-swapped if the odd one does fail.
I've not encountered multiple IC failures on these, that are more common-place on Spectrums (Usually the DRAM's), C64's / VIC-20 (Usually Commodore-made IC's) or certain PET's........

27th Apr 2021, 6:20 pm	#26
ortek_service Octode Join Date: May 2018 Location: Northampton, Northamptonshire, UK. Posts: 1,440	Re: PCB design -- on a BBC Micro! Apart from the PSU's mains-filter capacitors suffering from the infamous case-cracking with age, fortunately Beeb's are generally very-reliable even a long-time after they were made. And all the large IC's are usually socketed, so easily-swapped if the odd one does fail. I've not encountered multiple IC failures on these, that are more common-place on Spectrums (Usually the DRAM's), C64's / VIC-20 (Usually Commodore-made IC's) or certain PET's........