Fire Damage
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Part three of the Toastrack series: the Z80 reset pin had no rise time, and the cause was a tiny trace lifted during the recap. One wire later, it lives again.
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A melted ColecoVision cartridge from my house fire, with no idea what game was inside. I clean the baked-on soot from its edge fingers and switch it on to find out.
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Two ColecoVision cartridges melted together in my house fire. I cut Pit Stop free, clean its sooty fingers with a fibreglass pencil and find out if a swollen board still runs.
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A ColecoVision cartridge pulled from the ashes of my house fire. I free the board, clean off the embedded soot, print a new shell and label, and see if Carnival still boots.
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A much loved Spectrum 128K toastrack gets its botched recap undone and a fresh set of capacitors. My desoldering station dies, a patron comes to the rescue, but the machine still isn’t fixed.