I’ve finally taken the jump into retrocomputing with something I’ve always wanted to own, a proper Commodore PET, or CBM 3016 to be exact!

The seller said 5 years ago when it was last turned on, that it worked perfectly fine. However I do wanna take some precautions before reawakening it. Not that something blows after all this time.

I however am still pretty new to retrocomputing and wanted to ask the experts on here, If/what I should first inspect under or over the hood before turning it on? Thanks in advance!

  • Scubus@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    Don’t know the chemistry behind that, but if it’s start to read/write info could that not cause corruption? It just seems like your bios and OS would be unimpressed

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      9 months ago

      What do you mean? Electrolytic caps should only be used for power rails, them failing means the DC is either absent, at the wrong level and/or with excessive AC components.