TheLunarFox's Blog - Opening the mystical box

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So last night I opened my 2600 up. This only occurred to me after having successfully opened up my 5200 controllers to get them working again and not destroying them.

 

Now I've gotten cocky. When I was a kid, it never would have occurred to me that the Atari could be opened up. My dad was the one who instilled in us the reverence for the thing. He taught us to care for it and how. To save the manuals and all the documentation. The man doesn't kid around. We've got instruction booklets for things we don't even have anymore.

 

So after watching

(thank you areyouhim) and looking at this blog post, I felt ready to begin.

 

The main goal was to clean up the corrosion on the game select and the reset switches and to not break anything...

 

http://www.atariage.com/forums/blog/391/entry-7427-opening-the-mystical-box/