Board Repair

Examined the main boardset today. I had remembered seeing a couple gouged traces on initial examination. So today I dragged it out of it’s storage box, and sure enough, I’m guessing one of the joysticks must have smacked it during one of it’s several moves. At least six cut traces, a knocked off cap (not sure what kind it is, I think tant?) one of the RAM chips had a corner knocked off it (but it looks intact, despite that) and the connection pins were mostly bent, and the solder joints broken on most of them.

I fixed the pins first thing, but I’m going to have to wait for Andy to hit the shop for the traces, he’s got some wire that’ll make quick work of them.

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