azog | July 28, 2011
After cleaning the keyboard on my SX-64, I figured to tackle my PET 4032 next. I spent several hours completely disassembling and cleaning the keyboard, down to the bare circuit board, cleaning the plungers and caps. I even did the rubber eraser thing on the contacts. When connected, only a few keys worked, the K [...]
azog | July 26, 2011
Someone recently posted a comment on cleaning the keyboard on an SX-64. The keyboard of an SX-64 is not interchangeable with a C64, so unless you happen across a spare, keeping it working well is just that more important. I gave it a shot, and decided to take some pictures. Obviously, at least three people [...]
azog | July 23, 2011
While rooting thru a seldom accessed storage area in the attic, I stumbled over a stack of my old magazines. Seems to be mostly Omni, and various Compute! magazines from the 80s. There are several stacks. I haven’t gone thru them all, but the first one at hand was Omni’s July 1979 issue. I took [...]
azog | July 20, 2011
I acquired a Commodore PET 4032. It’s in pretty good shape, for a computer that is over 30 years old. There is no date stamp on the name plate, but since the PETs generally pre-date the VIC-20, it’s a fairly safe assumption. Years ago, I had a PET 2001 (non-cassette), but I gave that to [...]
azog | July 6, 2011
Lately, the call of the 8-bits has been pretty strong in me, such that I could not really ignore it any more. Other than puttering around on my MicroKIM, I’ve not been doing much 8-bit stuff. So I’ve been browsing thru eBay to find a decent CP/M system. Unfortunately, it seems that many of the [...]