My (now very clean) Amstrad CPC 6128

The final result after 2 hours cleaning! During cleaning I found a gold star sticker inside the disk drive - the kind you got at school for doing good work - odd.

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[RetroBob2084]

Cool! Now, be honest - did you get in the bath at the same time?

[P5ychoFox]

@RetroBob2084 Ha ha no, but aside from being dirty it is broken :(

[bluetonic78]

Ah, what a wonderful sight - not just a CPC 6128 but a clean CPC 6128!

My first computer - will always be special to me as I used it pretty much every day from 1986 up until 1990/91. Whenever we move back to the UK purchasing this bad boy will be very high on the list of priorities! :)

[P5ychoFox]

@bluetonic78 It's a system I've wanted for a while. I hope it works :)

[RetroGamerVX]

The 464 was a pain because of the tape drive, which was not really completely removable so had to work around it, dirt was caked onto the motherboard :o(

[storebror21]

Lovely job you did on that. I still love my 6128.

[EgoShredder]

Nice work cleaning it though and I hope you can get it repaired. I first used a CPC464 at a friends place in 1984, but it took me until 1987 before I bought my own. I had the most amazing time with that computer right up until 1993. I was more into being a musician by then and moved onto the Atari STE. I currently have a CPC6128 though which is great.

[EgoShredder]

@RetroBob2084

Well the ports do not clean themselves you know! :-D

[retrocomputerkidkris]

it looks immaculate

[PSI236]

Nice computer! I want one.