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Don't quite count this Atari 800XL out yet........


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That's the kind of hard core restoration most of us wouldn't bother with even trying unless there was a sentimental attachment or the machine was, say, a 1400XL or 1450XLD. :)

 

Personally, that machine's keyboard would be salvaged, the case dumped in the trash, then the board would get a bath in 90% iso for use as a parts. Ugh.

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Have you met the 1088XEL? It’s a good reincarnated

 

 

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Why yes, yes I have. This is mine, built between this past December and February.

 

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But having said that, the 800XL in the link is in terrible shape. When you're drilling into the phenolic layers to insert glue, you're going way beyond the level of effort I'm putting in to saving a pretty common model machine. :)

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