Starting point

This cool looking blue Amiga 500 is in for some refurbish! It is very nice to see that modern replacements such as new black keycaps and blue covers can lift the retro Amiga to new levels! The original machine has probably lived a quite hard life. The story what happened to it, before new covers and keycaps were installed, are unknown. Nevertheless, there are some issues which needs some attention reported by the current owner:

• The machine is partly working. Sometimes the machine doesn´t boot up.

• There has been some unknown liquid exposed to the mainboard and socket(s).

• Some of the keys are not responding as they should, and some of the large keys are missing the support stem.

• The original floppy drive did not work.

Below are some pictures of the blue Amiga 500. As expected the exterior casing (labeled "Amiga 500 classic edition") looks absolutely beautiful, and the brand new black keycaps matches the Amiga perfectly. The left hand side expansion cover is missing, and the original floppy drive is not installed (but supplied by the owner separately).

Refurbishment plan

To refurbish this Amiga 500 the plan is to do this trough the following steps (some of them in parallell):

- Check and restore the keyboard
- Refurbish the main board
- Refurbish and install floppy drive
- Verify operation by testing

Banner picture credits: Ajne01