compaqportableplus
Veteran Member
Did a few repairs on my newly-acquired Kaypro II today.
First repair was resoldering the connector on the power supply, as the joints were all cracked and broken on it, resulting in intermittent issues.
Here's a before:
I had actually already sucked the solder off of a few when I took this picture, but I outlined the ones that were still untouched, which is what they all looked like.
Here is after:
Much better! All intermittent problems have also vanished!
Second was the latch on the A: drive. These Tandon drives are kind of notorious for this problem, and this one was no exception. When I went to go take the disk out last night, it gave up on life. Thankfully I had a spare non-working drive that was similar, so I took the necessary parts from that, and was able to successfully repair the Kaypro's drive!
It's a bit tough to get the drives out of a Kaypro II, as there's not much clearance between the left side screws and the CRT. I ended up having to use vice grips to remove the screws on that side, since I didn't have a screwdriver that was short enough. That actually worked out surprisingly well, which is good, because I did NOT feel like removing the entire CRT.
Here's some shots of it all back together and working
I sure do like this thing. I'm really digging CP/M also! The games made entirely out of ASCII characters are also super fun
This machine was definitely not made for games, which is one of the things I love about it. I like things that people got serious work done with in the past, and the Kaypro is exactly that. In other words, this machine was no "toy" when it was new.
First repair was resoldering the connector on the power supply, as the joints were all cracked and broken on it, resulting in intermittent issues.
Here's a before:
I had actually already sucked the solder off of a few when I took this picture, but I outlined the ones that were still untouched, which is what they all looked like.
Here is after:
Much better! All intermittent problems have also vanished!
Second was the latch on the A: drive. These Tandon drives are kind of notorious for this problem, and this one was no exception. When I went to go take the disk out last night, it gave up on life. Thankfully I had a spare non-working drive that was similar, so I took the necessary parts from that, and was able to successfully repair the Kaypro's drive!
It's a bit tough to get the drives out of a Kaypro II, as there's not much clearance between the left side screws and the CRT. I ended up having to use vice grips to remove the screws on that side, since I didn't have a screwdriver that was short enough. That actually worked out surprisingly well, which is good, because I did NOT feel like removing the entire CRT.
Here's some shots of it all back together and working
I sure do like this thing. I'm really digging CP/M also! The games made entirely out of ASCII characters are also super fun
This machine was definitely not made for games, which is one of the things I love about it. I like things that people got serious work done with in the past, and the Kaypro is exactly that. In other words, this machine was no "toy" when it was new.