Good evening, Looking for a home for 3 Tandy 200 project machines. I'm sure they just need some re-cap action, but I have enough projects to last three lifetimes, and although I'm pretty handy at fixing things, I just don't have enough experience to get these things working again. They all seem to have a fault where, they will power on, but display lines in video, no matter what I seem to do. I've pulled the battery out (I think part of the problem is the lack of a battery causes the memory to be initialized in a inconsistent state), and although I'm not aware of widespread issues surrounding through-hole capacitors, there seems to be some suggestions that re-capping these M200's will fix them.
That being said, I bought these in an attempt to repair them and give them away to good homes, spurred by attending Tandy Assembly for the first time last year. Hoping that I can either fix them, or donate these to someone who can fix them, if anything to lessen the pile of projects I currently have. First time poster, long time listener -Britt
