Keyboard Repair
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Half the keys on this SAM Coupé had stopped working. A full strip down, a deep clean and a new membrane bring it back, with some tiny dead bugs along the way.
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A rare MGT SAM Coupé arrives on the bench. I check the repurposed Amstrad MP2 power supply, get it booting, open it up and find dead drive belts and a leaky capacitor.
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This heavily expanded Atari Falcon 030 needed a recap, a clean, tidier wiring, a fix for its dead numeric keypad and a dead RTC chip. Mayhem ensues, but it ends up running Quake.
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A Spectrum 48K board with half its parts missing, including the ULA. In part one I look at what’s gone and the new parts from ZX Renew that make a rebuild possible.
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An Amstrad CPC 464 found on a woodland walk, sent to me unopened. I open it on camera to see how bad years outdoors have left it.