Cleaning & rebuilding the Atari Acid800XL. Extreme restoration X 1000 , but will it work ?

#restoration #repair #atari #8bit #retro
So it's time to work on the mainboard of the Acid800XL.
Opening the box
Part 1:    • I am the idiot that bought an Atari 800XL ...  

Fixing the Keyboard
Part 2:    • Cleaning the crusty, rusty keyboard from H...  

00:00 intro
01:24 Quick recap from Part 1 with the initial cleaning
02:48 Using Bicarb of soda to clean the PCB
03:40 Results from Ultrasonic cleaning
06:00 starting to remove the corroded parts
10:00 removing the ram
13:10 last components are removed
13:45 Testing Ram
16:37 Testing the Atari Chips
23:48 Rebuilding the PCB
30:47 one last clean
32:32 Testing the Crystals and first power on
37:18 Powering on the system for reals
40:57 Talking about what is next
44:49 A nice surprise
50:00 FIN

Sorry the audio is a bit rough in places, I had to remove a lot of background fan noise.



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A big thanks to everyone who helped with this episode

@ReEnthused
John Blanchard for the spare Atari 800XL and 64XE It would have been so much harder without this amazing donation.

@MoreFunMakingIt
All the support I could ever ask for.

@ezContents reproduction 800XL PCB
https://www.pcbway.com/project/sharep...

Everyone who sent over clips, I was laughing so much, I hope I can return the favour some time.

‪@MrLurchsThings‬

‪@TheRetroChannel‬

‪@jamhamster‬

‪@TheRetroCollective‬

And a special Mention to ‪@RetroRecipes‬ for the audio clip, chip dippers.