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Piggy Back RAM fix! Acorn Electron Repair

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Acorn Electron bought from a Facebook Marketplace ad is brought back to life.

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00:00 Introduction to the Elk 01:58 First look inside 02:22 First test 03:50 Look at the ULA 04:26 Looking underneath the board 05:08 Scoping the RAM 05:39 GadgetUK 05:59 Piggyback RAM trick 06:59 Desolder station thoughts and removing the RAM 09:42 Testing the bad RAM chip 10:22 Testing the repair 10:36 Repair the keyboard 12:42 Type in RAM tester crash 13:12 Crashing problem fault hunt. ULA? 16:40 Power supply repair 18:51 ONE MORE THING (Speaker) 19:36 Testing with games

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