Repairing The Hord
Some Times They Just Arrive Dead
I have oftern bought vintage computers broken as I have the skill & technical knowhow to fix them. There are a lot of people in the retro comunity who don't have the skills to do such repairs. It is pretty much always without fail boardlevel stuff & involves unobtainium parts.
Sometime I fix them for others.
This was the first true vintaage computer fix I ever did, here is an edited archive from my old website.
This as also covered on my old website & here is an edited archive of that page & parts that cover other reapirs I have done, since. I have five of these fuckers.
This one arrived smashed, not shure what you have to put a Husky though to do this to it.
It had a dead chip, MOS was to blame. The usual for Commodore machines.
This one turned out to be a very standard fix.
This was a successful repair, however a moment of incopertance on my part ended it.
Composite mods & brain surgery, pretty normal for a dead ZX81.
When a Brother is in need, you just have to help them.
This one had a hord of issues. Almost a Microsoft Windows levels of issues.
Arrived dead, something in the CPU boot loop. (Ongoing Project)
EPSON HX-20 Repair
Battery conversion shinangins is "fun".
Look Mum No Computer has an amiga with a dead HDD & FDD drive. It was time to fix him up, had to take him home to do the bulk of the work.
CAF Prolite 286 Repair
A nice vintage 1989 laptop. We had a few issues with it but they were stupid simple. Only one soldering joint was needed. The fun of dry solder joints in HV parts.
It was completly dead when I got it, no lights on, no one home. It was quite an intence proccess of a restoration, probaly the most complex one I did. I did extensivly cover it on YouTube though.
I have always wanted one of these, however due to my voluneteering I do for LMNC's musium & a recent auction I was able to gain access to one to play with. This one had a graphics issues. However I loved fixing these old machines, the owner not so much. He likes building new stuff. So I took it home to fix it over the Xmass period.
This machine was a nice quick & easy repair. Also had some help thanks to a museum visitor. It started with a RAM error & ended with no errors.
Another vintage Toshiba laptop, this one was an easy repair as it was mostly configuration & minor parts replacement, all of which I already had in stock from two other dead Toshiba laptops from a same vintage.