Sark
crtdudesark.bsky.social
Sark
@crtdudesark.bsky.social
Vintage computers, CRTs, terminals, interesting retro tech. And cats.

I was @crtdude on Twitter before that site burned down.
I repaired this little Trinitron this weekend. KV-1204 from 1976. A friend of mine rescued this from the recycling, and gave it to me because it was dead. I replaced a few bad capacitors on the deflection board. The picture tube is really strong, which is unusual on these old Trinitrons.
January 12, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Got it all working and reassembled. There was a cracked trace causing an address line to be connected to only two of the RAM chips, and nothing else. This was acting like an antenna and picking up noise.

Still missing a couple keytops (1, Z, and left Shift), but I found a couple I could substitute.
December 28, 2024 at 8:29 PM
I can honestly say I've never seen a 2102 RAM chip behave like this before.
December 28, 2024 at 1:25 AM