Lets restore this neglected Acorn Electron. My first computer.

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My first computer was the Acorn Electron so I was happy to win this one from ebay in the normal untested state of all the other computers I have worked on. This was by far the worst computer I have looked at and was so very dirty on the outside and corroded on the inside. I was very busy at the time so did not have chance to setup to record the first cleaning of the case and keyboard. It was quite a lot of work, but nothing to special and just taking apart and cleaning. Then we start to clean up the corroded components and clean the PCB. Then clean the rest of the case and test the stability of the system with the ELKSD64. I had a few problems that I am putting down to the cartridge not pushed on correctly so we do some testing via tape after a bit of time to get tapes loading. The rest of the video is then stability testing and final words.

00:00 intro
02:10 A closer look at the Electron
03:20 starting to clean up the keyboard
04:13 Cleaning the corrosion on the main board
10:52 Replacing a few dead keys
13:16 Testing with the ELKSD64
15:10 Cleaning the base of the case
17:18 More testing with a few games
21:20 The sneeze of doom
21:55 Tape loading diagnostic
26:00 Loading a memory test utility
29:36 Loading Arcadians from tape - stability testing
31:20 Loading Arcadians from the ELKSD64 - more stability testing
33:40 Loading Elite and leaving it running for more stability testing
34:40 Final Words


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Joakim Karud - The Melanphonics

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