Do your pods have the twisted cable or the straight? Both mine have the straight.
Our 8080 pods have the OEM twisted cables. Our 6502 pods (re: Clay's Tempest question) come in both twisted and the flat cables. I'm assuming the flat cable is a non-factory replacement item, but could be totally wrong about that. The 6502 pod that failed just happened to have had a flat cable but I'm confident the drive problem was unrelated; we found one specific driver output that wasn't going sufficiently high once plugged into a "real" target board. It wasn't a general malaise of the address lines like you might expect from transmission line losses or higher EMI susceptibility due to the flat cable if that's what you are wondering.
Are you using a 9010 or a 9100 to drive the pod?
Both... Alex ---- ayeckley@elektronforge.com www.elektronforge.com