Tag: repair notes
-
Is untested always the same as not working?
how big is the actual risk of buying a untested retro hardware?
-
A C64 with black screen
When a C64 fails, the most common symptom is a black screen. While having a display of some sorts makes troubleshooting easier, a black screen gives away many useful hints. Here is how I usually start the diagnostics process, when I get a machine with a black screen. Introduction A black screen can be caused…
-
Datasette repair notes
Commodore’s datasette is a robust little machine, and many of them still keep spinning. Furthermore, many of the most frequent problems can be fixed easily. This post contains my datasette repair notes, and will be updated regularly. Some numbers I have bought several lots of defect datasettes and it has been surprisingly feasible, if we…
Categories
- buying and selling
- Computers
- dansk
- Datasettes
- Floppy drives
- Joysticks
- Not categorized
- Power supplies
- Repair Notes
- Test procedures
Recent Posts
- Is untested always the same as not working?
- A catalogue of Atari-compatible joysticks
- Sådan kommer du i gang med retrocomputing
- Checking the R/W head on your defective 1541
Tags
1530 1531 1540 1541 1570 1571 assembly number azimuth; black screen Commodore commodore 64 commodre computer datasette disks drivebelt drive belt drive head hardware joysticks køb og salg mainboard power supplies r/w head refurbishing repair notes reselling retro retro-computing retrocomputere retro computers selling tapes testing original games test procedure warranties