Old computers come and go in the great circle of life. But there was an LCIII that I had that I let go prematurely. It was making weird squealing noises and the speaker wasn't working and it was acting just a little bit off, so I sold it. Then about a year later I discovered the magical wonders that recapping can work. #RetroComputing
Okay, this has been a bit more full on than I expected. It’s midnight and we’re part way done. Going to pick it up again tomorrow. Getting there though!
And massive thanks to folk like @mac84tv and @MuseumJoe who will do casual recapping streams for fun. Seeing that it's actually doable and fine and that when things go awry there's often some sort of fix is really helpful for us relative n00bz :D
Fan turns on. Floppy drive makes its little noise. BlueSCSI lights up, but doesn't blink like it's accessing. Video turns the monitor on but doesn't send out any signal. Audio initialises but doesn't play the startup sound.
Weirdest of all, the lights on the keyboard just stay on instead of just quickly blinking. #RetroComputing
@vga256 I did a bit of brushing and clearing and toothpick-scraping around where I’d been working, too. Some of it was a bit… dodgy. So who knows what the actual fix was 😜
@billgoats that's a good thing either way :) i'm so glad your machine booted eventually. it took me - literally - months to get my CC fully working. i was convinced that i had a bad edge connector because the floppy drive never worked. it turned out to be one spot i had missed cleaning before i installed a new cap, and it bridged the pads beneath it - right beside the floppy controller 😩
@vga256 Yeurp. The good thing is there are signs of life, so it's not completely b0rked and hopefully fixable. The bad thing is it's not actually working yet 😜
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