Casual Atari ST Triage and Fix

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• NJ

  @Njbuilder95 · 10 months ago

  Here I am scouring eBay for an Atari, while Adrian gets handed an entire museum! The rich get richer! lol. In case you can’t tell, I am incredibly jealous! lol.

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• GA

  @GarthBeagle · 10 months ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEdot_payjE&amp;t=5247">1:27:27</a> Happy 40th Birthday Atari ST computer! 🎉

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• JA

  @James_Ryan · 10 months ago

  Absolutely love the &apos;on the road&apos; clips!

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• AA

  @aaronmoore8601 · 10 months ago (edited)

  Yay some Atari content and almost 2 hours!!

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• AN

  @AndrejRadulovic-yu1hm · 8 months ago

  Most beautiful case of all vinage computers

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• TR

  @tramadol42 · 10 months ago

  As an old Atari nerd who worked in an Atari/Amiga repair shop, this video triggered me in so much ways.<br>Take a few pieces of advice from an old man:<br>1.If you just insert an empty disk, you don&apos;t have to wait for an ST to timeout on the bootseek.<br>2.The floppy disk drives with wide eject buttons were notorious for failing.<br>3.The Keyboard ist used by ALT+Cursorkeys and ALT+HELP/UNDO for buttons<br>4.At least this Mega-ST2 got a fan. Atari got cheap in later days and didn&apos;t put in fans anymore. Retrofitting a 3rd-party fan was the most common mod we did on Mega&apos;s.<br>5.Software compatibility (especially with cracked programs) depended heavily on the installed TOS version and the Blitter.<br>6.As an Apple enthusiast, you definitely need the Mac emulator (ROM) card for the Mega ST.<br>And last but not least, yes, most errors in STs could be fixed by reseating the ICs or replacing the original sockets and resoldering the joystick-ports. <br>As long as the MMU wasn&apos;t defective, STs were pretty tough.

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• DO

  @dougblum2472 · 10 months ago

  Wow! &nbsp;Jackpot!<br>What a lot of treasure!

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• RA

  @RavenWolfRetroTech · 10 months ago

  This looks like a great bunch of machines!<br>I laughed when I realized that these are the machines from James. I put this on at my bench while I was prepping machines from James for a video 😀Thanks for the shout out, it was a great surprise!

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• GO

  @goofoffbert · 10 months ago (edited)

  Holy Retro Computers Batman!!! A beautiful save! .. I even saw my favourite joystick there in one of those boxes. I look forward to all the repair videos coming up.

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• LI

  @lissaguillet3754 · 10 months ago

  Kind of impressed with how resilient these ataris are. And almost no barrel capacitors.

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• FL

  @FluffyTheGryphon · 10 months ago

  Hell yes, a near 2 hour video. I can work on stuff while listening and watching

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• TH

  @TheAnkMan · 10 months ago

  No triage needed. Doctor Adrian saved them all! 😀

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