Repair

Repair of a Cirrus Logic VLB Graphics Card

Fellow vintage computer collector, Gammitin, challenged me to fix four VLB graphics cards, as well as upgrade the RAM on…

10 months ago

Two special Amiga 4000s: More Jops Repairs

In my previous post in this series, I managed to diagnose and repair three very strange issues that were causing…

11 months ago

Two special Amiga 4000s: Jops video

I finally got Jops to generate a good DiagROM serial output, but the video output wasn't working. This time I…

12 months ago

Restoration of a barn find Amiga 2000: part 3

All the motherboard issues were resolved in my previous post in this series, now it is time to reassemble and…

12 months ago

Restoration of a barn find Amiga 2000: part 2

With this Amiga 2000, I previously got it into a state where it would boot from the main CPU and…

12 months ago

Two special Amiga 4000s: Repairing Jops

Last time I worked on Jops, I left myself a lot of work to do. This weekend I picked it…

1 year ago

Restoration of a barn find Amiga 2000: part 1

I recently acquired an Amiga 2000 for £350 which was in an unknown state, but had many upgrades in it.…

1 year ago

Diagnosing an Amiga 1200 Data Path Fault

I recently acquired an Amiga 1200 motherboard in a spares/repairs condition for about £100 recently. There was evidence of a…

1 year ago

Two special Amiga 4000s: Diagnosing Jops

When I last left this blog series, the first of Stoo Cambridge's A4000s had gone to its new owner. It…

1 year ago

Two special Amiga 4000s: Rebuilding Jools

In my previous post, I had the Amiga 4000 known as Jools mostly repaired, there were still a couple more…

1 year ago