Restoration of a Radio Shack TRS-80 LAPTOP | Retro Repair Guy Episode 25

Retro Repair Guy performs a complete restoration & keyboard fix of a Tandy S-80 Model 100 and replaces the battery with a Supercapacitor.

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The twenty fifth episode of the Retro Repair Guy. A series aimed at retro and vintage electronic repair and restoration.

00:00 Snazzy Intro
00:15 Brief History of the S-80
03:50 Show Intro
07:13 Thank you to our sponsor
07:44 Initial testing of the S-80 laptop
09:13 Disassembling the S-80 Model 100
13:00 Repairing, recapping & Supercapacitor Mod
16:19 Notes on the repair
17:43 Let's take a bath
20:44 Repairing the S-80 Model 100 keyboard
22:36 Additional notes
24:05 Reassembling the S-80 Model 100
27:58 Before & After
29:35 Testing the restored Yamaha RX5
31:25 Wrap up

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