{"id":602,"date":"2022-09-11T01:21:08","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T01:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.n4n.us\/wordpress\/?p=602"},"modified":"2022-09-11T01:23:59","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T01:23:59","slug":"ventage-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.n4n.us\/wordpress\/?p=602","title":{"rendered":"Ventage Computers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As you might know, I&#8217;ve been working on computers for awhile. And for the most part I never dump old systems unless they stop working. Did do some housecleaning over the summer, found a few systems that had died. Caused by rust and &#8216;melting&#8217; foam. Over the weekend I dug out my old Atari 800XL and hooked it up. Worked pretty good, it does have sticking keys&#8230; What I found interesting was taking the machine apart, this thing was built like a tank, solid and heavy, not like modern computers.. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Basically I can take keyboard apart and clean the leads.. Another weekends project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finding a TV to connect the computer was more difficult. I needs a old tuner. Lucky for me the flat screen in my office is older and has a turner..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.n4n.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Atari800xl.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-601\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.n4n.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Atari800xl.png 600w, https:\/\/www.n4n.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Atari800xl-225x300.png 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Having worked in a Atari repair center, I had a demo cartridge and test cartridge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you might know, I&#8217;ve been working on computers for awhile. And for the most part I never dump old systems unless they stop working. Did do some housecleaning over the summer, found a few systems that had died. Caused by rust and &#8216;melting&#8217; foam. Over the weekend I dug out my old Atari 800XL &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.n4n.us\/wordpress\/?p=602\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ventage Computers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,27,14,30,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","category-personal","category-projects","category-repair","category-ventage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n4n.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n4n.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n4n.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n4n.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n4n.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.n4n.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":603,"href":"https:\/\/www.n4n.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions\/603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n4n.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n4n.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n4n.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}