Conventional Memory
Repair
Fix old computers and consoles, step by step.
Open Repair in the interactive museum
Capacitor recaps
- Recap Bench — Pick your machine, tick off each capacitor, and get a shopping list. Over 80 machines.
- Repair Bench — 69 repair guides for batteries, belts, lasers, cartridge slots, drives and more, with checklists, parts, tools and tips.
- Repair guides, as web pages — The same repair guides as plain pages you can share and search.
- Recap guides, as web pages — The same machines as plain pages you can share and search.
- How to recap, step by step — The order of work, the tools and the safety list for any machine.
Fixing things
- Fix a dead vintage computer — Where to start when it will not turn on.
- Repair journal — What got fixed, what parts it took and how long.