Commodore Care Manual: Diagnosing and Maintaining Your 64 or 128 System

Easy-to-follow, professional advice on money-saving maintenance, troubleshooting, and simple repair techniques!This book is your guide to the care and repair of your Commodore 64 or 128. You need no previous experience! PC Care Manual: Diagnosing and Maintaining Your 64 or 128 System provides you with three basic approaches to Commodore care: preventive maintenance, problem diagnostics, and general repair.PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE: General practices that will keep your Commodore healthy are outlined, Periodic maintenance procedures that can ward off system problems, and troubleshooting techniques to help you isolate problems, are explained. All of the major Commodore subsystems are addressed.DIAGNOSTICS: A ”System Diagnostics Program" written in BASIC is presented in both CS4 and 0128 versions. This program automatically checks the components of the system and reports on their status.REPAIR GUIDELINES: Specific problems are discussed within chapters on the individual components. These “Troubleshooting and Repair” sections list step-by-step instructions that will often enable you to fix problems all by yourself.Chris Morrison is currently employed as customer support manager for a computer-aided publishing manufacturer in San Jose, CA. He also manages the company’s technical publications group which writes and produces user guides and marketing literature.Teresa S. Stover is a technical writer who has written manuals for various Silicon Valley firms. including business computer systems consultants, circuit board designers, and software developers. She has also published articles in several nationally distributed trade journals.