Follow up to this Post: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/8771226
As promised yesterday, here is a look inside the machine! Before it also had spiders and spider webs inside but I cleaned those out!
Beside the dust, one very interesting thing I've found inside on the board are 2 seemingly modded chips with labels on them! The left one read "Ex Basic 2 | Sockel: Mitte | UD4" (Sockel: Mitte is german for Socket: Middle) And the right one just says "Ex Basic | Re 1"
On the back of the machine there is another Ex Basic related Label that says "Ex Basic=sys37100" I wonder what this is all about.
Gonna take an electric Bike pump and see if its powerful enough to get rid of the dust on Saturday, then its time to boot her up for the first proper time!
I've never heard of a PET power supply having the same problems as the notoriously bad C64 power supply, but testing it is probably a good idea anyway, given how electrolytic capacitors can misbehave after long-term storage. It would be a pity to fry those rare chips.