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Atari 65XE (130XE) - Keyboard Repairs (Key, Chips, Membrane)

4,234 views · Published 6 April 2017 · 44:28 · Indexed 8 November 2026

Channel: GadgetUK - Retro Gaming Repairs & Mods · 2017 · Science & Technology

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A long video covering the repair of an Atari 65XE.  In this video I fix a broken key plunger, repair a membrane trace, and replace a few chips related to keyboard input.  Whilst my approach took me the long way around, there's useful stuff in here for most Atari 8 bit keyboard faults, and some of the techniques could be used in other systems.

In this video I also briefly showed some of the steps to make up your own power lead and AV cable.  Pinouts of the AV and power connectors are available on the internet.  I also briefly mentioned how this board revision can be upgrade to 128KB - I might do that later, but I might go for 1MB upgrade instead.


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