Life's Reality -- Does owning a TI require a soldering iron?

[Tursi]

We'll build the TI into the arm of the wheelchair for you

[+OLD CS1]

Hey, speaking of soldering irons and what-not, does anyone have a list handy of electrolytic capacitors in the 4A?

[Gazoo]

 

I hope I can get at least another 20 years out of mine, because after that, if I'm not dead already, I'll probably be a that demented old fart in a wheelchair parked in a corner at the local nursing home.

 

I think I'm closer to being there than you, but I'm pretty sure I can fart better than you can. I've been seriously practicing for a long, long time.

 

Just ask my kids. Quote below:

 

"Jeez Dad! Serisly?"

[+save2600]

Gonna have to read up on this diode mod thing. Never heard of it until now!

 

Refurbish and restore arcade and pinball machines (so yes, own an iron and a gun), but have never needed either one for any of my TI systems all these years. Not even when I had a PEB box! Fan wasn't an issue, besides, probably would have used wire nuts anyway.

 

No doubt I'm not as hardcore a user as some/most of you.

[Omega-TI]

Hey, speaking of soldering irons and what-not, does anyone have a list handy of electrolytic capacitors in the 4A?

 

In the Amateur Radio Community, there were guys who put together "Refurbishing Kits" for the more popular older radios. I guess the failure rate on the TI is still so low that it's not economically viable for anyone to buy, store and wait to sell a packet of assorted capacitors. When the time does come sourcing these things is going to be a drag, so yes, a list would come in real hand for when needed.

GOOD IDEA!

[+OLD CS1]

Eventually I will put together such a list. From Mainbyte, it looks like the electrolytic caps in the firehose connector and PEB card are 22uF. If the caps are all the same, which I figure is possible but not probable, then a re-cap kit for the TI will be REALLY easy to do.

[AtariLeaf]

I voted "no" on the first two questions and "yes" on the third.

[Opry99er]

Well done.... Well done...