Restoring my Amiga 1000 keyboard, part 2: I've desoldered all the keyswitches and treated the rust on the top plate, sanded it and given it a few dustings of proper etching primer. It's looking better, but my borderline OCD says it needs more work. So I guess I'll sand and prime it, rinse and repeat, 'till my soul is at ease. I'll paint it black in the end, just like Stones said. The case is mostly fine, but it'll get a quick retrobrighting bath to remove a bit of yellowing on one side of the bezel.Then I'll need to open all the keyswitches and see if they can be saved - most of them didn't work. I guess the contacts are corroded. As far as I can tell these are Mitsumi Standard Mechanical type 2, quite different from the standard Cherry MX switches you mostly see nowadays. I've ordered a few replacements just in case. #amiga #Amiga1k #commodore #retrocomputing #keyboard

Only a few keys work on my Amiga 1000 keyboard, it turns out. The top plate is also a bit rusty, and everything is covered in 40 years worth of grime. After a bit of carefully applied rust remover it looks like this. Contact cleaner doesn't help the keyswitches much. Guess I have to tear it all the way down and open the switches. This'll take some time! No wonder why this machine was expensive back in the day - this keyboard is constructed just like a modern high-end mechanical keyboard, with proper switches secured in a rigid metal top plate. I've also got the top-end Amiga 2000 keyboard with Cherry MX blacks from 1988 or so, and it's a much simpler deal than this. No metal top plate on that one, the PCB and the plastic case is the only thing that supports it as you're typing away. #amiga #amiga1k #keyboard #retrocomputing #commodore

Whoa! Didn't think it would ever happen, but I got hold of one of my grails, a 1986 Amiga 1000, the first model in this line of computers. It's a PAL machine, and the keyboard is made norwegian with a bunch of little stickers. I love it. Commodore had trouble bringing this thing to the market, and it was way too expensive. Very few was sold here. I remember it as a schoolyard myth - Commodore's Next Big Thing after the 64 and the 128, it was fantastic, but you couldn't get it yet. The kids were abuzz, and some scammer in the next town was claiming to have stock on order and was pre-selling them for a way too low price. I never saw one back in the day, but two years later I had my Amiga 500 instead. #amiga #amiga1k #commodore #retrocomputing

Project 3D-printed case for my Commodore 1541-II is mostly done. There was a bit of work needed to get the printed parts to fit nicely, but with a few blobs of UV resin and a file I got there in the end. Might reprint the lid, it's got a crack that I've repaired. It's fine for now tho. Inside is a spare drive mechanism I had lying around and a NOS mainboard from Retro8bitshop. It needs Jiffydos, but I'll make sure it works first! #Commodore #commodore1541 #retrocomputing #3dprinting

I'm working on a 3D printed Commodore 1541-II case, time for the lid. Eventually found that printing this model upright got me the best result. The print's fine except a fracture on the right side, it was there even when the thing was on the printer bed. I guess the nicely modelled vents cause a structural issue right there. I'm not too worried, I'll get some clear UV resin and reinforce it from the inside. When the lid is in place, there'll be zero stress on that part. #commodore #commodore1541 #3dprinting #floppydrive

Turns out I have both a nice mechanism and a NOS mainboard for a Commodore 1541-II in my stash. I figured I'd try to make a functional floppy drive out of it...so it's time for a bit of 3D printing. There's a good model of the front cover here: https://www.nightfallcrew.com/13/01/2026/commodore-1541-ii-front-cover-fixed-v3-stl/ #Commodore #c64 #retrocomputing #1541drive #3dprinting

Testing my BlueSCSIv2 with obscure Amiga hardware - this is the Masoboshi MasterCard MC-702, a combined SCSI and IDE controller for the Amiga 2000 from 1992 or thereabouts. I'm trying to get this to play nice with N2630 accelerator card I recently built. In theory I guess it should be ok to run the lide.device IDE driver on the N2630 along the MASOBOSHI.device driver from this card, but I'm running into a few snags. Some games installed on the BlueSCSI won't run, but I can store stuff and run simple programs. At this point I'm not sure if what I'm seeing is the MC-702 having issues with the BlueSCSI, or trouble on the Amiga side of things. Next up is to try out what I really want to use the BlueSCSI for in this setup - CD images and transferring files to the system via the SD card. #Amiga #amiga2000 #retrocomputing #BlueSCSI

It's storytelling with capital letters, but I do appreciate the reference-fest in Stranger Things. It made me pick this one out of my bookshelf, it's the norwegian translation of A Wrinkle in Time that I read as a kid. It's printed in 1980, I guess I read it a year or two later. Thankfully neither Mrs. nor Mr. Whatsit manifested. Has read it for at least one of my kids in later years. Weird and fun! #strangerthings #awrinkleintime #books #MadeleineLEngle

Holiday soldering project done! It's a N2630, a modern remake of the old A2630 accelerator card for the Amiga 2000. I haven't got the right Motorola 68882 coprocessor at hand, so that'll have to wait for now. Apart from that this is ready for testing. #amiga #amiga2000 #retrocomputing #soldering

My Evo64 Blue Pearl is alive! Initially I thought the clock circuit was borked, but it turned out that I had placed the jumpers for PAL/NTSC the wrong way around. Like 90 degrees the wrong way. Seems I can't read instructions, but apart from that I'm doing all right. #commodore #retrocomputing #c64 #soldering