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If any of those Amigas had a battery backed clock, please remove the batteries at the earliest opportunity and neutralise the area affected by any leakage with
by robinsonb5 1y ago
If any of those Amigas had a battery backed clock, please remove the batteries at the earliest opportunity and neutralise the area affected by any leakage with a mild acid such as lemon juice. They'll almost certainly have leaked by now but the longer it's left the worse the damage will be.
- gjvc 1y agoAbsolutely this. The Varta batteries of the 1990s have inflicted awful irrepebal damage on many systems of the time. Especially sad when people thought they were keeping them safe in their attic and then unpacked them to find the motherboard full of dead components.
- bitwize 1y agoWhen I bought my Amiga, its clock battery had been replaced by a mount for a coin battery. That machine had received some serious love.
- burnt-resistor 1y agoBy now, that's the least of the concerns. If they use linear PSUs with massive electrolytic capacitors, I'll bet they're toast (dried or leaking, and so far outside of spec). And anywhere with any amount of humidity without desiccant packets and sealed in plastic will experience corrosion of PCBs and connectors.