 I have a new computer and here it is my very first Commodore Amiga and wow that is really really nasty. In the pictures I thought it was yellowed from plastic decay but this does not look right. These keys are repulsive. I mean it is a bit yellowed but a lot of that's just gonna be dirt. So I wanted this because I want it's the smallest Amiga and I don't have unlimited space and also it's got an ID hard drive inside and a PCMCA slot for expansion both of which are kind of wanted and I also wanted a classic Amiga and not one of the newer ones because frankly there are computers that do fast better than Amiga's do so this isn't brilliant. What have we got? The description was not brilliant I have to say so I'm not entirely sure what this is. Is there anything in the trap door? Looks like it's been opened. This is a expansion module. Oh it's got something. AMRAM 6O something 1 and this switch here is set to off RAM and is that one or two positions? It's only one so it's only on or off so I think this must be a RAM expansion. I see what's on the other side. Oh that's bad. You see what this is? This is one of the dreaded Vata batteries and it's corroded. Okay don't see any sign of corrosion here or on the connector but that battery is coming right out now. These things are the worst. This will be a combo real-time clock RAM card. Yeah see that? I can't throw it into the beam because it's a battery and there's corrosion here so this is going to need white vinegar. I'll just go and grab some. So here we have a cap full of some of my favorite cleaning vinegar cleaning because I bought a bottle of it by mistake a few years ago and really done to anything to do with it so I use it for this. So we're going to dab some on the corrugated area which looks like quite a lot of it actually. You can already see it start to bubble. That's neutralizing the alkaline goop in the that came out of the battery. It's this doesn't look particularly complicated to be honest. This board is probably repairable but slather lots on but it's possible that I in fact do not have a nice memory expansion board for my new Amiga. It was sold as working so hopefully they at least turn it on. Okay so that then put a bit more on the particularly bad bit so that's going to go aside. Let's see what the rest of it's like. Well for a start there are no screws. Well there are just enough screws to be bad so let's try and get these off. Come on focus. Yeah I've decided that manual focus just doesn't work very well so I'm going with auto but auto also is a little bit problematic. Okay these screws are extremely mangled. This one if that will focus and zoom in enough you can see is mostly missing its actual screw bit. So that goes in the bin and I think I missed. Let's try the other one. That's come out just wedged in something. A couple of interesting screws here which don't look original are not particularly well versed with Amiga's. So that screw hasn't come out. I need to find placement from somewhere. It's interesting. Either that looks like glue. I think someone may have tried to glue that screw back in. Either that or the case is coming apart. Attempted repair by unauthorized persons violates warranty and reasonably high serial number. Yeah this is not valuable in any way. I actually want this to use and to play the odd game on. So I need to remove the keyboard membrane which just pulls out and this is the LED strip. And inside we have a moderately filthy motherboard. This looks okay. I mean it all needs a massive clean. Look at the amount of gunk on the keys and the case and the motherboard and probably the drive heads too. But cotton bud. It's just fluff. The IDE hard drive is one of the reasons I wanted the 600. I don't know if this hard drive works but I have a couple of possible replacements and of course there's always a compact flash adapter instead. It's not much in the way of capacitors. I don't see anything terribly badly wrong. I don't believe that these machines can be damaged by bad caps. Though it's possible it won't work properly but I think I'm safe to operate it without changing the capacitors. I'm going to guess that no one has recapped this board because otherwise someone would have noticed the horrible RAM expansion board. Yeah okay now that the vinegars had a chance to operate a bit you can see hopefully the camera will pick it up. You can see the dark patches in these tracks. That means that the corrosion has got in underneath and has eaten through them. I think this board doesn't work. I mean there's nothing terribly complicated. It might be fixable. Back's not brilliant either to be honest but that I think is a different project. Okay well I absolutely need to clean the disc heads because this is repulsive and I think I actually want to take the motherboard out as well so I can clean the case. So how do these floppy drives come out? There's a screw here and that'll be what these other two screws are for most likely unless it's this. Is that focused? Maybe. There's a notch in the plastic which looks suspiciously like somebody has it's not moulded. I think someone's tried to get in there. Yeah that does not come out as is but someone's obviously tried so I think it's these. Well that screw's wrecked. That's been well gouged. Look at this one. I don't think there's actually any rear. I might be able to get it's turning but it's a close thing. There it goes and you. Come on focus. Focus. Wake up your mind. There we go. That's garbage. Okay so now the floppy drive comes out and yeah that's quite disgusting inside. It's a chinon. Looks like a fairly normal PC drive. Amigos have fairly special floppy drives. A floppy drive interfacing. A lot of the protocol's done in software. Yeah this is going to need to come apart. It's full of gunk. Okay so we're going to unplug these cables. They look intact. Right to drive. Unplugs. We'll also go aside. Right what have we got here? That looks like a bodge but it looks like a factory bodge. Is that dust there? Yeah that's just horrible fluff. This thing's disgusting. This is the keyboard connector. We've got audio, composite video. It actually has an RF modulator that's nice. I didn't know that. That will actually help me with another project where I need an RF signal and you can't really get them anymore these days. Motherboard screws, big nasty self-tapping plastic motherboard screws, joystick ports, disk drive, serial port, parallel port, video port. I should be able to plug this thing into the VGA monitor above my desk which is above my workbench which is over there out of camera range but I will need the appropriate connector. Volvo. I'll have a good look through the box to see if it's there. The RF modulator is not in great shape. I think that's just rust. Okay there should be another screw somewhere to remove the motherboard unless it's just... Is there another screw? I don't think there is. I think this is just wedged in place somehow like that. This is definitely more brute force and I really like... There we go. And this comes out and it's rusty. It doesn't look too bad. Okay well I've got the bottom shell off and you can see all the horrible horrible gunk. Okay let's take a look at the top shell and see if we can take the keyboard off. It should just unclip. This also needs washing. This side is probably worse. There we go. Oh this LED panel is not coming with... Look how yellow those are. The keycaps will need doing too. And what fastens this on? Oh look, glue. That's what fastens this on. That will make cleaning this interesting. Okay well I think at this stage I probably need to figure out whether it works or not. So let's go for another rummage through the box looking for the power supply and for any other bits of hardware and I will go and grab my mini tv. Okay well here is the mini tv with hopefully the right power supply. But prop it up like that. That's a reasonable compromise. It's plugged into the composite port. I have the power supply which is just as filthy as everything else. This will all need cleaning very thoroughly. So we plug her in and lean back. Nothing. Okay let's try attaching that LED strip. See if we at least get a power light. Okay so on. Power light. Right now it's possible... Okay it's just tried to boot. But there is no floppy drive. Not sure why the screen. I know why the screen isn't turning on. Let's try turning the power on at the mains. There we go. Urds. Kickstart 2.0 looking for a floppy to boot off. No what? And let's just plug the hard drive in. I wonder if there's any actual Amiga software on this. You'd think so because like what else is there going to be on the hard drive inside an Amiga? Okay and wow that's loud. And nothing on the screen you know. And it's squeaking. I don't know if it's appearing on the microphone. But usually I expect hard drives to be a bit less creepy than that. So this thing is quite possibly completely defunct. No big deal. Honestly having a hard drive this noisy is going to drive me insane. Let's just try power cycling again. We've got something. This thing did a thing. This isn't. Okay so that's the kickstart ROM again. My suspicion is that the hard drive is toast. I will try this with a real computer and see if I can get anything out of it. But for now let's just unplug it. I will use one of my others. This chip is getting a bit warm. All the Amiga chips have code names but I don't see anything printed on the motherboard for this one. But it does look like this PCB works which is nice. So next is to clean and reassemble. Wow grief this is crusty. This is going to involve lots of IPA. So I'm just going to give it a bit of a dab on camera to see what happens. And then I think I will do the rest of this offline. Can you hear the scraping noises he's making? So I live in Switzerland and the seller wouldn't post to Switzerland so I had to get this sent to an address in the UK and then forward it on to me which costs an extra £30 for shipping plus 40 francs import duty. Yeah that's cleaner but yuck. And the person who did the shipping for me did open it up to make sure that it was actually a computer or not a pile of bricks. And they said that it did look as if this had belonged to a smoker. And I thought they were exaggerating. Well those are better even if they are covered with fluff. Don't like that green stuff on the cotton bud. And so I don't know whether this is actually due to corrosion from the battery or whether it's just you know copper tarnish. Okay I'm going to do small cleaning offline and come back. Okay I have given the motherboard a clean. I've done the contacts and brushed all the dust out with a carbon brush. So the next thing is this floppy drive. This is one of the reasons I wanted it. I wanted to test my flux engine Amiga writer. It should work it's been tested by other people but I always like having I like being able to test these myself as well. Plus I want to do some actual Amiga development. Also the Amiga has quite a lot of good games. Other things which were in the box by the way are about 400 Amiga floppy disks. And heaven knows what's on them all. Just glancing down at the box I see Lotus Turbo Challenge. Okay that's in fact the only labeled one I can see. So what this probably is is a million pirate copies of stuff. Hopefully somewhere in there there will be a genuine legally licensed version of workbench. This clips. So revealing revealing horrors. Can you see in there that that's disgusting. The heads do not look in great shape. Okay I'm not cleaning the heads here and just brushing the most of the dust out. Yeah that's not supposed to be on a disk head. It's me blowing in it. The Amiga is 68000 based and it has a interesting microkernel OS that is very well thought of. Okay I'm immediately very well thought of mostly by Amiga fans. But to be interesting to explore I have a compiler project and a 68000 back end. Actually I've got a 68000 back end for the Atari ST but it'd be really satisfying to get this to get it working on a real Amiga. I mean it's not like the Amiga is short of compilers and programming systems but you can never have too many. Okay just going around again with the wet cotton bud to pick up more dust. I think this really wants to be disassembled. A bit of corrosion in here too. Yeah I am not happy with that. Not at all. I'm a little nervous about putting my disks in it to be honest. If it is an ordinary floppy drive I do have another one that I can plug in. It's actually a combo floppy drive and card reader but of course you can't use the card wouldn't be able to use the card reader half on the on the Amiga. The card reader is USB but the floppy drive bit is actually an ordinary floppy drive. Yeah I will actually do that. I am just really unhappy with this thing. This is going to need a proper tear down and clean. I may do a separate video on that. Okay well that's now reassembled and we'll be put aside. The next bit is the keyboard. Now somewhere I have a key puller. Key puller. I've actually done some clearing up recently on my desk which means I now cannot find anything because everything is where it's supposed to be. So we have fairly thin keycaps, delicate springs and underneath here is a membrane and lots and lots of fluff. So these are all going to have to come off. There you go and I'm going to have to wash my hands. You can see that my fingertips are brown from the stuff and this. You can see all the fluff and whatever it is. I'm going to have to brush this down outside because I do not want this in my house. Yes well you can see that a lot of the keys are really quite yellowed so I'm going to need to at some point bleach them with hydrogen peroxide. I don't think I'm going to do that today. It'll work perfectly well yellowed. I want to do some experimentation first. I do not have a ready source of UV that I'm willing to trust so I'd want to use heat instead. You need to catalyze the reaction or it's far too slow to be useful. So essentially all you do is you boil your keycaps in hydrogen peroxide solution but the temperature can't be too high or the keycaps will melt and it can't be too low you'll be waiting forever. So I want to do some experimentation. I've got a heat source up to about 40 but that may not be good enough. Okay well time to start cleaning I suppose. Well the keycaps are now dry or at least dry enough and I have a handy reference so let us start reassembling. Okay well that was slightly more exciting that should have been due to springs and things getting lost. I particularly wanted this model of a600 because it has the UK key map with double quote here, at sign here and backslash and pipe here. It's interesting that these two keys have been left blank rather than expanding the shift and return key and wow that is incredibly yellow but it should work so let's start reassembling the machine itself and also the bottom shell wherever I put it. Here we are now nice and clean this was all scrubbed offline in the kitchen sink. So now the problem we were having taking it out was the joystick and mouse ports so this just pushes into place it's not quite in there we go that wasn't too bad and now I need to remember where I put the motherboard screws which I think maybe just been pushed aside which isn't so great. I've got the keyboard floppy drive screws there let's try some generic screws oh I remember these these were the nasty self-tapping screws I think I may have actually disposed of them because they were too nasty so I'll have to find screws that fit it's just a bit too big these okay so that should hold the motherboard in I think it was just the one screw now there's another one here let's find another similar one oh no this was the floppy drive mounting post it was just this one okay so the keyboard clips into the top shell so we don't want to put that in yet now the next thing we need to do is to reassemble the floppy drive I did say that I was going to replace this with another one from my stash but it turns out that you can't because this one is configured by the jumpers to output ready rather than disk change on one of the lines and the Amiga one's ready and my other drives aren't configurable or if they are configurable I don't know how plus the front is rather different the Amiga drive doesn't have the fascia plate which is easy enough to remove but it's also got a very specific size and shape of eject button to project out through a hole in the case so that's annoying so this thing is part of the mount which goes on that bit hooks under there yeah that's another reason why we need this specific drive this plate is used to actually it goes doesn't go here that goes here and is used to stand the drive off the motherboard so that will screw on like this yep and these two holes are for these so these need attaching and these should be standard screws I've got lots of these on my desk now this it's got one screw here that will be one of these actually these three will be these three so let's try a different one so this should now sit firmly like that with one screw there are should be two the same and one that's not so this one will be for the motherboard that's not a good screw but it should work yeah the the plastic post underneath has is dying so that's not actually fastened on very well the screw won't tighten okay we also do need the floppy connector which of course goes underneath so we should have wired that up before I try to reassemble let's see it goes this way around so the red stripe should be pin one pin one is there so let's just put a little bit of contact cleaner in okay and in that end so this this end of the cable isn't keyed which is irritating so where is pin one I can see a mark on the connector on the left which is about the right sort of geometry here so let's just try that I'm at it let's just put some of this in here hook it up and then this should drop in place yes that is more or less correct that's not good that post is completely gone that will probably be why the um yeah the screw hasn't that just fallen out okay well let's screw it up here instead this should be all right provided the machine isn't turned upside down and shaken the plastic here isn't in great shape either this one so I leave that post as now actually broken let's just try it again oh yeah it just pushes down okay that's terrible what we got in the blue I've got some of this this dries brittle but put a dot there and that should hold the screw in right the next bit would be the hard drive the hard drive should sit here and it does not appear to be screwed in at all it's just held in by the case which is kind of odd however the hard drive is completely fried I've tried this in my pc with a usb converter and it just doesn't work it spins up it makes horrible grating noises uh metallic shrieking sounds of imminent bearing failure and is generally not in a good shape so I am not going to put that back in I am if I can find the right screwdriver let's try this one going to those screws are well seized I am going to attempt to remove the mounts and put that into the computer just so I know where it is I'm going to try and take the lid off this hard drive and see if I can oil it and make it work at least once that screw is dead hopefully not completely dead because if I can pull whatever's on it off it that will be nice okay well these screws are free the reason these are seized is probably because the drive gets very hot this is an early very early notebook drive I believe it's 20 megabytes that's a megabytes with an m not gigabytes with a g what do I have that might open this I have to saw this yep okay going to get a hacksaw so the way you do this when a screw is mangled beyond repair is you try to cut a slot in the top doesn't need to be particularly big just need a little bit more okay and that gives enough purchase for a slot screwdriver to unstick it there we go and then you remove the screw and you throw it away okay um I'm just going to wipe this down to get the metal dust off it so this will just sit into place in its slots is it this way around it was this way around and I also have the rather precious IDE connector with one red stripe which goes on pin one let's add our contact cleaner I'm going to order myself a SD card adapter for use as a hard drive in this thing it turns out that while I do have several notebook drives that they all sat up so this I won't don't have anything to replace this with which is a shame and I believe that is the top that this part of it done so let's go on to the top shell which should be fairly straightforward so the keyboard clips into place here this this wire goes through this slot so and just clips into place okay so all we need to do now is plug in the this connector for the LEDs and the ribbon connector for the keyboard this isn't a a simple friction fit it's actually got a clamp on it which I need to lift like so um I'm wondering let's put some contact cleaner in here so this plugs on here and this I'm afraid there's going to be no view of because it's awkward pushes into the slot and then the connector goes down okay so now this would be the time when we would reattach the the memory expansion which goes in here in the trapdoor however further investigation has shown that there's actually hopefully this will show up green in the connector here so I think this is defunct it needs careful inspection with a continuity tester soaking in assorted chemicals and probably a lot of repair so I am not going to touch that for now but the hatch does go back on and we should be ready to go so I will go and attempt to dig up a that's not a bad keyboard so I'm going to try and go through that pile of floppy disks see if I can find a workbench disk and then we'll fire it up and see how it goes