Success!



I had to replace W4 (little more than a jumper), R23 and R24, U2, J4, and carefully redo a pad which lifted. I then touched up a few solder joints to ensure that they don't fail.

So far, it's working, although there's still a fair amount of rust and corrosion on a few components (including the flyback), so they'll have to be replaced sooner or later I think.

The Power circuit appears to be quite healthy; I can get it to crowbar at 5.50 volts, so that's good (it probably means the capacitors and other key components are healthy). There's no weirdness in the display, aside from the height adjustment being out of whack (probably my fault, since I fiddled with the pots while working on the board), and the alignment being slightly low.

Now all I need is a boot disk (I have those), an keyboard and a mouse.

So far, I estimate I've spent about $80 on this thing ($40 for the original unit, plus ~$35 to buy TMG's for extra parts).

I figure I could probably get about $10,000 for it on eBay :lol: :lol: :lol:

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