"Left for dead" Commodore 64C made beautiful again! 

And that's how the idea for Wall-E was born

Computer literally too angry to die

If this c64 could talk it would say, "Yeah, I have been in a coma for years, I have some scars, I have some artificial parts...but I am ALIVE again!"

I believe nobody computer or otherwise wanted to live as badly as this commodore

Number 5...is alive!

Not every geek with a commodore 64 can hack into NASA.

It was beautiful

Very

Maybe the ants just did a good job on repairing it .. yet they got it stolen when they just finished :D

Yes! The keys are beautiful this way

I think Marina Hildebrand is correct. The Sony TV will be trying to lock on to signal and adjusting the carrier frequency but the frequency must be too far out. Love the videos.

I believe that would have been Mr "JoulesPerCoulomb", the most well-spoken ZX Speccy repairer on RU-vid. ;) And yep, the audio carrier is offset from the main video carrier (by about 6-8 MHz, I think?) Could just be some rust in a variable inductor that's throwing off the audio carrier freq a tad. Ideally, the ferrite slugs should be adjusted with a nonmetallic tool, but you can often use a jeweller's screwdriver if the slug turns freely, then keep removing the screwdriver in between tweaks. (since the metal screwdriver will probably also throw off the freq a bit.)

Yep, I agree that the audio carrier is just a bit too far off-freq for the TV's AFC to pick it up. I can't recall the exact video which had the audio carrier fault on, but it's a great channel, and worth checking out... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-OAIhIPhYwYM.html

I just realised something - the ferrite cores in the variable inductors are made of well, iron. I doubt the rust remover could had eaten the whole slug, but you never know. lol

@ElectronAsh correct, that’s him. Digging through my memory I found the video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GMKGIP5Yuqs.html

So does your comment

He didn’t need to repair the board at all though. Just clean it!

It's sad that the best computer bug joke in all of humanity's history will be seen by so relatively few.

Thats funny i gotta pan mine..

i love fixing older pc's and turning them into cheap gaming rigs.a lot of 2nd and 3rd gen i7's can play games with little mods and with the 1050ti and a tfx psn i turned a dt dell into a gaming tower

Hopefully it won't trigger the computer's PTSD

My friend gave me his 42 inch LG Plasma - it sat on his balcony, not really protected from the elements over the winter. A light dusting and it works perfectly. No burn in either. I just repaired a free 50 inch LED so I think I'll give the plasma to my dad.

That is a great story! Thanks for the share!

@@adriansdigitalbasement Yeah the load times were a pain back then but I was kinda used to them. Although I was jealous of friends who had disk drives that could load the games a lot faster. The Ocean loaders had some of the best and most memorable music of them all on C64. i still listen to a lot of them and other SID tunes today as they bring back so many memories.

What sort of games did she program. 10 PRINT "HELLO" 20 GOTO 10 Was that the kind of thing which kept you entertained?

Those were a few of them lol! She’d add her own twist tho, HELLO actually said I LOVE YOU!

@@agypsycircle An interesting variation on this kind of old computer is 10 POKE(INT(RND*63000)), INT(RND*255) 20 GOTO 10 This shoves a random number in a random memory location. Various random things will appear on the screen and random noises may be heard. Eventually you may overwrite a sensitive system register or variable and the whole thing crashes in a variety of interesting ways. I used to crash computers on display in retail stores like this in the early days of home computing!

Yes- until Google's server farms revert to nature and ants inherit the racks. It was a good run though.