Hi Guys,
I picked up a bargain recently on a $5 800XL at a garage sale. It needed a bit of work as it was really dirty and the RF plating had rust all over it! (The guy said it had been in an outdoor shed for 20 years!) I manage to remove the plating and get all the rust off and it now looks great. I was a bit worried about the state it might actually be in but when I powered it on and ran through the tests it flew by the RAM and audio tests and I was able to play a few of my games on it no trouble. It does have a few dead keys and I suspected this was due to some bad IC chips near the keyboard connector (CD4051BE chips I think). However I discovered when I put the keyboard from my mint 800XL on it everything worked fine so it looks like it's just the keyboard I have located one from oversea so I think I will go and get hold of that. I don't fancy having to replace the ICs as they are not socket-ed and I am not that great with a soldering iron so hopefully I won't have to do that. Has anyone in the group had any experience with this?
Cheers
Rel