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Declan
@declan@social.chinwag.org  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

I've been dealing with a head cold most of this week, so one benefit was being home when my Atari parts order arrived.
The main part in this order is a new keyboard membrane for the 1200XL. It was a fairly easy install (no soldering, looking at you Commodore) and as the photo shows, all is happy again.
I gave the SunCom StarFighter joystick a service, as it had carbon build up on the directional contacts, meaning it only worked in one direction.
I can't wait to show off this fairly rare machine at this coming Sunday vintage meet.

#retrocomputing #atari8bit

The Atari 1200XL computer running Pac-Man with the SunCom StarFighter joystick
The Atari 1200XL computer running Pac-Man with the SunCom StarFighter joystick
The Atari 1200XL computer running Pac-Man with the SunCom StarFighter joystick
Photo shows an Atari 1200XL computer displaying a BASIC prompt where I was testing the keyboard, in particular using the sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"
Photo shows an Atari 1200XL computer displaying a BASIC prompt where I was testing the keyboard, in particular using the sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"
Photo shows an Atari 1200XL computer displaying a BASIC prompt where I was testing the keyboard, in particular using the sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"
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