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Troubleshooting An IBM PC 5150 - Down The Rabbit Hole We Go!
About a week of fault finding goes into an IBM PC 5150 motherboard pulled from e-waste, and the maker admits to almost giving up along the way.
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Retro Hack Shack
7 chosen videos. Channel on YouTube
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This Apple II Monitor Was Screaming - Step-by-Step Apple Monitor II Repair
An Apple Monitor II with a high-pitched whine and a collapsed vertical picture is repaired in a step-by-step video from Retro Hack Shack.
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I Found A 1987 PC Clone! Will it work?
A 1987 PC XT clone with a RAM problem goes on the bench, and the maker makes a new BIOS ROM from the Super PC/XT Turbo BIOS and tests it.
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HDMI For The Commodore 64 --OR-- Add HDMI To Your Vintage Computers! Part 6
Commodore 64 HDMI output comes from a component board by C0pperdragon feeding an RGBtoHDMI adaptor, after the maker rules out composite and compares other options.
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Rebuilding A Commodore 64 Power Supply
Rebuilding a Commodore 64 power supply means removing the potting, rewiring around a modern 5V module, testing, and tracing the machine's wires, with alternatives to rebuilding discussed.
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Fixing An IBM 5154 EGA Monitor For #DOScember
A non-working IBM 5154 EGA monitor is bought to see if it can be saved from the recyclers, and the maker tests capacitors, replaces transistors and chases a grounding fault.
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TRS-80 Coco 1 Repair and Mod - #SepTandy 2020
Never-opened since new, a TRS-80 Color Computer gets a keyboard repair, a composite video output mod, a motherboard recap and a clean, with chapters for each job.
