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With the early revision A500 resurrected again, it soon become obvious that there were more things to fix on it. One of the first things I noticed was that the keyboard was in need of repair. For one thing it was disgusting looking, with dirt and grime all over, and someone had used a pencil to draw crosses on most of the keys for whatever reason. But more importantly, some of the keys didn’t seem to work.
For the past 15 or so years I have been in possession of an Amiga 500 that only boots up to a green screen. I was supposed to buy it off of a friend, but it already had the issue when we tested it out so I got it for free. The machine had been my friend’s older brother’s back in the day. Other than that I didn’t know much about it. I only knew that a green screen meant it was some sort of memory issue, as I’d have learnt from asking about it on some forum (likely eab) at the time. That sounded too complicated to fix for me back then, so I just put it away and mostly forgot about it.
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