{"id":156,"date":"2020-04-20T20:51:58","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T20:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ethan.757.org\/?p=156"},"modified":"2020-04-20T20:51:58","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T20:51:58","slug":"atari-1040st-overhaul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ethan.757.org\/index.php\/2020\/04\/20\/atari-1040st-overhaul\/","title":{"rendered":"Atari 1040ST Overhaul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MAGFest was donated an Atari 1040ST, and I decided to overhaul it to working condition. The Atari ST&#8217;s legacy is mostly in the music world, and I have some experience repairing mine.<\/p>\n<p>First up power supply. Blown capacitor on it. Recapped the entire PSU with a kit from an online vendor. All is well.<\/p>\n<p>Second up. She&#8217;s golden as movie theater popcorn. Retrobrite time:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"imgur-embed-pub\" lang=\"en\" data-id=\"a\/huUArbf\"><p><a href=\"\/\/imgur.com\/a\/huUArbf\">Atari 1040ST retrobrite<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/s.imgur.com\/min\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Lastly, one of the spacebar stabilizers broke during the retrobrite process. I managed to CAD out a replacement in sketchup and printed it. I swear I searched thingiverse before making one but didn&#8217;t find one, but apparently I&#8217;m not the first. None the less I posted the file from mine on the site as well.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"imgur-embed-pub\" lang=\"en\" data-id=\"a\/R7BO8RF\"><p><a href=\"\/\/imgur.com\/a\/R7BO8RF\">Atari 1040ST keyboard thing<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/s.imgur.com\/min\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Machine is working and made it to MAGFest 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MAGFest was donated an Atari 1040ST, and I decided to overhaul it to working condition. The Atari ST&#8217;s legacy is mostly in the music world, and I have some experience repairing mine. First up power supply. Blown capacitor on it. Recapped the entire PSU with a kit from an online vendor. All is well. Second [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,2],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethan.757.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethan.757.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethan.757.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethan.757.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethan.757.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ethan.757.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157,"href":"https:\/\/ethan.757.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions\/157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethan.757.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethan.757.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethan.757.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}