Atari 1050 is looking up!
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Atari 1050 drive PCB with most of the electrolytic caps removed.
Well, it appears that I’ve got the problem with the Atari 1050 sorted out. It seems that some of the 47μF caps (C42, C43, C69, C70) were bad, causing the shorts. I’ve also removed all of the other electrolytic caps and will be ordering replacements from Mouser tomorrow. (The board had looked like this before.)
I did make one pretty substantial mistake and inadvertently lift a trace on the top of the board when removing one larger caps. The hole really didn’t seem through-plated and the leg of the capacitor didn’t let go from it, and I peeled it right back. Thankfully it should be very easy to jump around with a 2″ piece of wire, so when I put it back in place I’ll do that.
Hopefully by the end of the week I’ll be able to properly image old 800XL floppies. Yay!
Are you going to make your repository of disk images public? The Atari 800XL was my family’s first computer and it would be cool to see what you have. My stash is long, long gone.
Yep, that’s the intention. :)
Nice. I haven’t found a nicely organized collection of Atari 800XL cartridge/disk/tape images a la the Cowering GoodROM sets for most game consoles.
They are out there, just sort of rare, honestly. Well, I think they are… Most of the disks I have are warez stuff from way back when, so I think it’ll be interesting to see running again. heh.
I specifically remember a lot of the game disks I had included a “CRAKED BY CRACKERjACK” spalsh screen. Though I love the internet, I do kind of miss the magic of the days of true person to person floppy copying as a means of software distribution. You never knew what you were going to get when you traded disks.
I think most of these came from my uncle who got them either from coworkers or BBS’. I think at the time I was four or eight years old. heh.