Since my girlfriend managed to acquire a box of various commodore goodies a while back I haven't had much time to really investigate other than getting one A500 up and running and doing a bit of gaming and testing out the 3 C64s (2 dead one working but I'll get back to that later).
Today I decided to get the (hideously yellowed) other A500 out of its box to see if it was working and came across a curious switch next to the joystick 1 port. I popped in a workbench disk and switched on, all went well so I decided I would try to boot up after flicking the switch to see what happened. Nothing happened... the insert disk screen was there and the floppy drive was doing nothing.
Even more curious I opened it up and even through the shielding I could see there were "extra bits".
Anyway... can anyone give me a clue to what is going on with this frankenstein A500?
Sorry about the pic quality by the way... any suggestions to the wiring on this memory expansion? The yellow wire has no wire exposed so I don't think its been connected anywhere and the other 2 have been connected together...
Also, with regard to the C64's - the 2 non functioning ones seem to have chips missing although I can't tell if it would be the same chip or not as one is a 64C. Can anyone point me to someplace that might help me identify the missing chips?
Thanks!
