Recently purchased this sorry looking Atari 600XL untested with no cables. Turns out it boots up fine and all the keys work. The video however is very noisy with what looks like a light blue colour bar scrolling up the screen. Bugger!. The blue scroll bar was due to a failing PSU. Turns out the […]
Atari 1020 Colour Printer Plotter Repair. This printer plotter is an Alps design which was reused for the Commodore 1520 plotter the MSX PRN-C41 and Oric MCP-40 amongst others. This Atari 1020 is another Ebay untested purchase so no surprise it didn’t work when I tested it. But thats ok as its more fun for […]
Took a gamble on this Atari 1050 drive sold as seen untested. I have a few Atari computers but no 5.25″ drive for them so it might well be a non working show piece to go with my other Atari’s. I never had one of these back in the day so was a complete rookie […]
Purchased untested. Its a risk but will be fun to bring it back to life. The Atari 400 was first sold in 1979 so this could be a 40 years old!!! It arrived with no power supply and a little dirty. I’ve given it a quick clean so I can at least work on it. […]
Just need the Sinclair QL for the full set