Rescuing vintage arcade video games from an abandoned ship (2016)

Post by pmarreck » Wed, Feb 05, 2020, 7:19 PM UTC

ChickeNES wrote: post #49

pmarreck wrote: post #35

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I recently fired up an old Mac Plus that has stayed in the family and everything seemed to work fine until it started smoking, the display started to go wonky, and then it quit... Almost certainly an old-capacitor issue

That sounds like the RIFA brand AC line filter capacitor blowing. Cheap and easy fix provided you have a soldering iron and the long Torx driver to get at the screws in the handle. :)

Do you have a guide or something on how I can DIY this? I know soldering from my past military experience. The Mac has been in a shop for 8 months now "waiting on a part", I'm considering reclaiming it and repairing it myself, but I know nothing about the details.

There is a lot of nostalgia invested in that thing, it was my family's first computer and my own personal first experiences gaming and programming.

Post by mgsouth » Wed, Feb 05, 2020, 10:31 PM UTC

_ofdw wrote: post #18

sheepdog wrote: post #17

Perhaps this is just my inner poverty showing, but how does something like this even happen, from a monetary perspective? I'm assuming the owners had investors or loans or some other financial reasons that would prevent them from spending a lot of money and then simply parking it forever. And wouldn't property taxes or city nuisance abatement fines nibble away at the property over the years? It can't be completely fr…

I'm no expert in arcade games but often the case with niche assets is that the cost of getting them off the premises can outweigh their market value, and assets are only worth something to creditors if they can be sold to recuperate accounts receivable. For example via my employer I technically own a large multi-engine aircraft that is worth some $70 million dollars but requires significant repairs, engineering and r…

You can't post a tease like that :) Details? You got a blog?

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