Retro Challenge 2017/04 Day 05

Today's project is to recap my original VIC-20.

I opened it up and found it to be extremely clean inside.  There was no evidence of any corrosion on the caps. Being this unit is about 35 years old and I am already inside it, I will changed the caps.





I made a mode to this unit in 1983 to hook it up to a Model 33 ASR Teletype machine and used that as our printer for many years. Not the best looking mod but I was only 20 at the time.




I noticed the joystick connector seemed very loose.  There was no hardware holding it in place.  I added a couple 4-40 screws and hardware that will make it feel solid.




Over all this was a simple recap but I am glad I did it!



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