> I'm returning to my childhood home in a couple of days after many years away, and now I'm wondering about searching the attic for my A1200
By an incredible stroke of bad luck the first Covid lockdown (the one that lasted months) happened when I was far from my wife and kid. By chance I was in my childhood home (alone).
Out of boredom I started watching YouTube videos about fixing and maintaining old computers. It motivated to go the attic and garage and find all my old computers. Took the battery out of an old Mac. Greased my Commodore 128's 1570 drive.
Booted the C128 and checked which floppies were still working.
And quite some still worked: it was a complete and total blast from the past to see the game Commando, with its incredible soundtrack, booting!
I don't know if the A1200 is prone to leaking capacitors or not: if it is send it to someone who can recap for you.
It was really fun to get these old machines back to life: I really encourage you to do it.
By an incredible stroke of bad luck the first Covid lockdown (the one that lasted months) happened when I was far from my wife and kid. By chance I was in my childhood home (alone).
Out of boredom I started watching YouTube videos about fixing and maintaining old computers. It motivated to go the attic and garage and find all my old computers. Took the battery out of an old Mac. Greased my Commodore 128's 1570 drive. Booted the C128 and checked which floppies were still working.
And quite some still worked: it was a complete and total blast from the past to see the game Commando, with its incredible soundtrack, booting!
I don't know if the A1200 is prone to leaking capacitors or not: if it is send it to someone who can recap for you.
It was really fun to get these old machines back to life: I really encourage you to do it.