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richard_hall
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2d ago
Update: recapped my grandfather's 1983 Macintosh and it booted to a sad face, not a desktop
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karenw90
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2d ago
Rant: heard a guy at the Dayton Hamvention say he recaps old radios with whatever is in his junk bin
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margaret_bennett3
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3d ago
Found a TRS-80 Model III still running a car wash in Spokane
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thead44
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4d ago
Bought a $20 capacitor kit for my dead Atari 2600, and wow
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thead44
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5d ago
My Atari 2600 wouldn't show a picture so I cleaned the cartridge slot with alcohol and now it works but the joystick only goes left
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pipera50
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6d ago
My Sega Genesis died mid game of Sonic 2 and I opened it up expecting the worst
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jesseb20
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6d ago
Showerthought: my 2003 GameCube stopped reading discs and I almost tossed it in the trash
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the_zara
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9d ago
A guy at the flea market in Ohio swore by the hair dryer trick on a dead NES, I laughed in his face, guess who feels dumb now
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ellis.charles
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12d ago
I finally stopped blowing out cart pins with compressed air, and a $6 brass brush in Dayton taught me why
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margaret_nelson
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13d ago
Appreciation post: my $9 soldering iron beat my $60 station on a 1986 Game Boy
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verab28
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15d ago
Found a TRS-80 in my late uncle's attic in Scranton and the dust inside told me more than the manual did
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alice_reed47
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15d ago
Update: a guy at the swap meet told me to stop cleaning my NES carts with alcohol and I finally switched to a pencil eraser
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spencer_johnson22
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16d ago
Shoutout to the guy at the Portland retro swap who made me eat my words about reflowing Game Gear caps
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reese177
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16d ago
Recapped my old Mac SE and it booted worse than before, starting to think the internet is wrong about this
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seth_green85
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16d ago
Spent 3 hours on a dead NES because I forgot the power brick was switched to 240v
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