Sideburn and I take a field trip to SoCal Surplus, great people running the place. Sideburn picks up A Kaypro 4 which he spent the last 24 hours restoring back to near perfect condition. Amazing work. See the certificate provided below.. Like to rummage? of course you need to.. Prices are perfect! https://socalsurplus.com Located in San Diego..
oh god.. i know.. ANd its even worse.. its a daiisywheel letter quality. Not even a dot matrix. apparently thats all they were used for.. printing and spreadsheets.
they had lots of good test equiment and o'scopes!
Now onto the printer 🤣sucka
Looks like my kinda place... In the 2nd pic above, upper right corner, there is a multi-meter. I don't remember the manufacturer, but I used to have one of these years ago that failed. I still have my Simpson 260... with the hard plastic accordion cover.
😂 wow I finally got certified
Fun day and kept me out of trouble all weekend 😂
In addition to the KayPro I picked up a mint Shugart 8” Floppy drive. Will be fun to try to get that functioning.
Kaypro popped and went up in smoke 5 mins after powering up and the vertical deflection kicked the bucket 2 mins before that.
But after some TLC and a few hours wrestling with making CP/M disks, it’s a beauty!
This is a Kay Pro 4 - SideBurn repairs a blown RIFA caps and CRT repair..