Post here everytime you get something new!

[AndyLandy]

Remove the A4000 Battery ASAP!

My friend did that some weeks ago (on my advice); long before the unit made it to my house. Of those three Amigas, only the A2000 has an RTC battery, and that's a CR2032 hack job.

That reminds me, that A500 plus is still sitting in the corner with a sealed warranty sticker... I'd better go pull that apart tonight and disconnect its battery! Thanks for the reminder, rkauer!



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And another one bites the dust!



Battery removed!

There was a bit of green furring around some of the components near the battery, but it hadn't got too bad. Sadly, I'm out of lemon juice, so had to resort to vinegar. The green goo came off quickly and easily (A far cry from my A3000 story!) so it works a treat, but sadly it doesn't smell nearly as nice as a zesty lemon-fresh Amiga would! Finally, I've been very liberal with the dilute IPA, covering the whole board to remove both the vinegar deposits and indeed any other crap on the board (Hence why the board is wet in the photo above). I'll hopefully fire her up again tomorrow and see if she's still working!

[Alcatan]

Ok this is not exactly new as I've had it about 6 months but tonight is the 1st time I've had a chance to clean and test it.

My Father-in-law had an old computer that was taking up space in his Garage and wanted me to take it off his hands, so I obliged, and it happened to be a Sinclair QL, in it's original box (in very good condition) with original poly inserts, manuals, memory expansion with FDD adapter, a QL Mouse, bundles of Software, and a QL Vision Monitor.

So I cleaned the monitor as that was grubby as sin, and powered on the QL, and booted up fine. The only problem I have found is the keyboard membrane needs replacing.

Will upload some photo's later.

[rkauer]

If I type what I'm thinking now I'll have to ban myself for bad behaviour, swearing and envy!

Andy & Alcatan, you guys have all my envy.

Wanna trade some for a used wife?

[quarkx]

I wish the A500+ was as popular here in North America, as it was in Europe. It seems that Commodore ship them all over there, but none here to Canada.

[moijk]

[ (Hence why the board is wet in the photo above)

Wet and naked? You sure know how to show off your girl

[JLPedro]

Well some additions to my collection:

A CPC6128, still waiting for a rgb/scart cable and power adapter to fully test but apart from some keyboard yellowing is in good shape, of cours i will follow the great tuturial by Jasey and make misself an external 3,5'' floppy drive :



A good looking Philips VG-8010 (first computer i ever touched ) with psu, now i REALLY need to find Athletic Land and Monkey Academy Carts!!! :



A C64c cream color (a good candidate to finally make my recipe of Retrobrite ) fully working, also will need a C2n Cassette Player:



Some more in a few weeks... i hope!!

[Alcatan]

Pictures of the QL

[Zetr0]

@alcatan

now thats a keeper... a beautiful QL, with memory upgrade I see... would that make it 1024KB or 512KB ? i cannot remember what they originally shipped with.

Recently I have been reviewing an old Einstine 256 - designed / built in theUK exclusively for the Japanese Market by TANDY. I am still getting my head round a home computer in 1984 with 256KB of RAM and I thought that my Specky 48k and C64 was the roxorz!

[Alcatan]

If I type what I'm thinking now I'll have to ban myself for bad behaviour, swearing and envy!

Andy & Alcatan, you guys have all my envy.

Wanna trade some for a used wife?

Unfortunately the Shipping would be a killer LOL

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@alcatan

now thats a keeper... a beautiful QL, with memory upgrade I see... would that make it 1024KB or 512KB ? i cannot remember what they originally shipped with.

Recently I have been reviewing an old Einstine 256 - designed / built in theUK exclusively for the Japanese Market by TANDY. I am still getting my head round a home computer in 1984 with 256KB of RAM and I thought that my Specky 48k and C64 was the roxorz!

Definately a keeper, I'm sure it takes it to 512, I'll boot it up tonight and photo the screen as it has a nice little message that comes up telling you what the board is and how much memory it has due to the expansion.

[thgill]

Received today my v3.0 RGB to S-video adapter from Nathan @ Amigamaniac: