HP 25C troubleshooting

[mdunn]

Comments very welcome: HP 25C shows *some* signs of life… Occasional zeroes on display. Voltages present, semi-clean (what are typical noise levels? I threw extra tantalum across the 6V – reduced noise, but otherwise, no help). Clocks present. POR seems to POR. Serial data bus shows continuous repetition of the same word (though the signal looks very odd – the lower quarter or so is decidedly not a clean digital signal – is THAT normal?). The SYNC line has a problem – all I see there are +/-900 mV spikes. Makes me think the processor is toast.

Thanks,
Michael