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Spending free time taking a look at, fixing, and conserving Retro and New Tech.

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Manufacturers of laptops back in the day really didn’t give them much of a chance with minimal plastic reinforcements to hold the screen. The pegs were completely cracked past the reinforcements. These plastic blocks should hold the screen a lot better. #retrocomputing #pc5700
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Grabbing a backup of this Sharp PC-5700 while the HDD is still working in case there is any original software on it. This hard drive has a had a tough past. #retrocomputing #pc5700
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Although tape loads might be nostalgic for some people, they are unnecessarily painful these days. So first upgrade for the CPC 6128 is a Gotek. For this the 3” drive is going away. Finding a CPC on this side of the planet is rare. Finding a 3” disk is close to impossible.
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IT’S ALIVE! I used the jumper trick to bypass the PAL and hardcode only the first 64k and the machine works. I was even able to read some programs from tape. So this basically means I have a failure in the upper memory or the PAL. #retrocomputing #amstrad #cpc #cpc6128
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@gordoslair From what I read they use analog. Unfortunately I don't have the analog board for my RGBtoHDMI.
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I figured since the CPC 6128 output is RGB the easiest way to get video out for now is a VGA cable. So wired one up. Unfortunately first power on and I get a grey screen. So the system is outputting something. Let the diagnostics fun begin. #retrocomputing #amstrad #cpc #cpc6128
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Just noticed they kept the board edge connectors under the bulky connectors but no fingers on the connectors. Too bad it’s going to make it more difficult to use any CPC add-ons.
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Inside is just as clean. Except for a little dust everything looks really good. I don’t see any worries to try and power it on. Time to tackle the video output.
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