Thearchivebooks wrote:
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Bingo. Not much more to say. Lol
Retro has been strong all along and went mainstream with covid.
I you don’t mind/can get away with hoarding sit on stuff and wait. Put together working kits and sell them.
The knowhow involved in fixing stuff isn’t the hurdle it once was.
You have the likes of OS2 Museum digging deep into retro and iFixIt showing you visually.
Couple that with Prime books and the Internet Archive and you have books and specs dating from the 40s through today.
For little or no cost!
The top two causes for problems are blown capacitors and damaged traces.
Easy fixes with a little reading, and a $10 junker soldering iron.
And here’s a little tip on pre-pentium board batteries.
Using all proper due care.
Remove old soldered 1.3v lithium canister battery.
Install $1.50 AA terminal.
Use AA rechargeable!
Here’s another minor tip.
Try linux and/or BSD (Unix).
With a VM or HV you can do a surprising number of stable OS on OS setups.