Another recent purchase was this Amstrad 6128 plus. The only thing that was described as being wrong with this one was the disk drive not working properly. I first replaced the drive belt as these are a very common failure point. This got it mostly working but it still seemed to be struggling to read some of my disks. So I hooked up the scope and just tweaked the stepper motor alignment and now it is working spot on.
Next step will be to give it a bit of a clean and then I think this version of the Amstard is going to take up one of my permanent setup spaces, as I don’t currently have an Amstrad computer out on display to easily play around with. So I will get the M4 board hooked up to this one.
Quite an easy repair on this one, but happy to have a working example in my collection.
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