130XE brought back from the dead - Advice re glitching display
Ok, so one of the XE's I had it my attic was just the lower case and the board from a 130XE. Sometime in the mid 90's I have clearly labelled this as a none working 130XE board and it went in a spares pile.
Alongside all my other A8 hardware tinkering over the course of this year I've been revisiting this board on and off to try and get it to at least show signs of life.
Basically here is the timeline.
April - found board in attic. Standard 130XE rev 4 C070067
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