Had a small success just now in that I got one of my pair of non-functioning CC's to power on. After giving the various  I/C pins a clean up on the IIvx board got that machine booting and running flawlesslyagain the other day, I decided to give the less pretty of the two CC's the same treatment with a stiff brush and then got me some ignition again, albeit with no bong so I dare say this board does still need some cap work. This CC already had a failed HDD years back so this flashing floppy type activity doesnt concern me overly...



This makes me happy anyway. If you are wondering about the grubby mess of pencil and stickers, this machine belonged to my younger sister about 15 years ago until the HDD died about 5 years later. By young I mean, I was only 13 myself when this was given to her.

Now to give the board a clean up on the other one and see if I can get sucksqueezebangblow out of it.