I’ve finally taken the jump into retrocomputing with something I’ve always wanted to own, a proper Commodore PET, or CBM 3016 to be exact!

The seller said 5 years ago when it was last turned on, that it worked perfectly fine. However I do wanna take some precautions before reawakening it. Not that something blows after all this time.

I however am still pretty new to retrocomputing and wanted to ask the experts on here, If/what I should first inspect under or over the hood before turning it on? Thanks in advance!

  • TheaoneAndOnly27@kbin.social
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    10 months ago

    Wow, I didn’t even know that that was something to be concerned about. I will be much more cautious when I finally dig my Atari on the storage. It’s been probably 20 years since it’s been turned on. I don’t even know if it would turn on at this point. Thank you for the heads up!