ScuzzBlog: Diaries August 2019 Entry 22nd August 2019: Post 01: A1200 - Scavenging stuff. A1200 - Scavenging stuff. For a lot of the time during my frantic collecting days I would simply buy stuff that was broken or in a state of disrepair in the hope of salvaging good bits for future use. This has served me well over the years and helped me put kit back into working order. Sadly the A1200 is a bit of a pig cus all but the ROMs are surface mounted so I would need a soldering expert on hand to swap stuff out. My solution in the day was to buy replacement motherboards and simply swap the old one out. Same goes for keyboards and floppy drives. I did the same with the A600, though the 600 was a little more bulletproof in truth. So here I am with a faulty A1200 motherboard and the challenge of maybe having to replace not simply capacitors but maybe even components. It is obvious that the TV modulator is an issue, though I am not convinced the component is even necessary. The spare boards that I have are all broken in one form or another. There are three busted A1200 boards and they are stored with little prospect of ever being put to good use. Today I dug two of them out to inspect the TV modulator and to see if it was likely I could salvage any of the chips. I have no idea what faults are on the boards as they were from broken Amiga 1200s when they arrived here. So maybe not that much wrong. The one board that has been hacked the most came from a broken tower which I replaced. It has been butchered a bit and maybe could have stuff taken of the board. I really don't know. Anyway although rather dusty I decided to have a mooch around the two boards and check them over. Mainly for photographic records so I can refer to the components in the future. It is interesting just how many changes there were between revision dates on the A1200 motherboard in its short lived time frame. And so the pictures are more library images for my reference. Scuse shoddy pictures.. just for my usage in truth A1200 - Scavenging stuff. A1200 number 2

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