Druid6900
February 6th, 2007, 06:48 AM
Ok, doesn't seem to be any activity in here so I'll offer my services.
I specialize in the repair and restoration of Vintage computers (which, to give you some idea of how long I've been fixing them, were NEW when I started LOL)
Apple, Mac, Tandy, Commodore, Atari, Amiga, Zenith, IBM and, pretty much anything else with a CPU have been sent to me, from all over north America, while I was selling on e-bay because people would buy stuff, get it, wouldn't work, buy another one, wouldn't work, etc.
I just started (and am still populating) an on-line store specializing in Vintage Computers and parts (hence the name www.vintagecomputersnparts.com/catalog ) and you'll see that I have the parts to do the repairs.
As for my experience, well, I'm a certified ISCET technician in digital electronics, spent 10 years as a Tandy/Radio Shack Computer Repair Depot manager in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, owned my own repair facility (Nebula Computer Systems Inc./Nebula CADD Systems Inc.), have semi-retired and work from home now. Home looks a lot like the receiving end of a computer Time Tunnel with racks full of computers waiting for me to repair, test and put on my site for sale. I can't even play pool anymore because the table is covered with early Macs waiting their turn in the queue LOL.
I'll take a look at anything and can do board level repairs (as opposed to the new school of "repair" where if something is broken, they throw it out and replace it, something not really practical when dealing with Vintage equipment). Now, my success rate isn't 100%, but, damn close. I've been doing this for a LONG time. I can even give references.
Although I will fix things for a given cost (depending on time and materials), the way it usually works is that someone has several of an item, none of them working, so they send me the whole lot, wanting one back that works, I fix the one they want and ship it back (shipping is a cost to the customers, both ways), fix however many of the remainder and sell them off.
Even if I don't have the part in question for a particular unit, I have made a lot of connections in the obsolete parts industry and usually don't have a problem getting what is needed to complete the repair. Understand though, sometimes this takes time. Once as long as six months, but, that baby went back working like a charm. I'm pretty good as sourcing peripherals too, if there is something you'd like and I don't have one on hand and you'd like to know that it's going to work when you get it. I test anything I acquire for a client as thoroughly as anything I fix and sell myself at no extra charge. I have period diagnostics for most things so you'll know it's been tested to standards of the time period for your Vintage equipment.
Anyway, if you have stuff that doesn't work, and you'd like it to, get in touch with me. I can't promise that I will be able to fix EVERYTHING, but, I'll give it my best shot and, if not, I'll ship it back at my cost, so you'll only be out shipping in one direction or maybe buy it for parts.
Druid
P.S. I'm editting this because everything seems to have disappeared for the services needed/offered section and replying to them somehow is the only way to make them visible.
I specialize in the repair and restoration of Vintage computers (which, to give you some idea of how long I've been fixing them, were NEW when I started LOL)
Apple, Mac, Tandy, Commodore, Atari, Amiga, Zenith, IBM and, pretty much anything else with a CPU have been sent to me, from all over north America, while I was selling on e-bay because people would buy stuff, get it, wouldn't work, buy another one, wouldn't work, etc.
I just started (and am still populating) an on-line store specializing in Vintage Computers and parts (hence the name www.vintagecomputersnparts.com/catalog ) and you'll see that I have the parts to do the repairs.
As for my experience, well, I'm a certified ISCET technician in digital electronics, spent 10 years as a Tandy/Radio Shack Computer Repair Depot manager in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, owned my own repair facility (Nebula Computer Systems Inc./Nebula CADD Systems Inc.), have semi-retired and work from home now. Home looks a lot like the receiving end of a computer Time Tunnel with racks full of computers waiting for me to repair, test and put on my site for sale. I can't even play pool anymore because the table is covered with early Macs waiting their turn in the queue LOL.
I'll take a look at anything and can do board level repairs (as opposed to the new school of "repair" where if something is broken, they throw it out and replace it, something not really practical when dealing with Vintage equipment). Now, my success rate isn't 100%, but, damn close. I've been doing this for a LONG time. I can even give references.
Although I will fix things for a given cost (depending on time and materials), the way it usually works is that someone has several of an item, none of them working, so they send me the whole lot, wanting one back that works, I fix the one they want and ship it back (shipping is a cost to the customers, both ways), fix however many of the remainder and sell them off.
Even if I don't have the part in question for a particular unit, I have made a lot of connections in the obsolete parts industry and usually don't have a problem getting what is needed to complete the repair. Understand though, sometimes this takes time. Once as long as six months, but, that baby went back working like a charm. I'm pretty good as sourcing peripherals too, if there is something you'd like and I don't have one on hand and you'd like to know that it's going to work when you get it. I test anything I acquire for a client as thoroughly as anything I fix and sell myself at no extra charge. I have period diagnostics for most things so you'll know it's been tested to standards of the time period for your Vintage equipment.
Anyway, if you have stuff that doesn't work, and you'd like it to, get in touch with me. I can't promise that I will be able to fix EVERYTHING, but, I'll give it my best shot and, if not, I'll ship it back at my cost, so you'll only be out shipping in one direction or maybe buy it for parts.
Druid
P.S. I'm editting this because everything seems to have disappeared for the services needed/offered section and replying to them somehow is the only way to make them visible.