ScuzzBlog: Diaries February 2026 Entry 26th February 2026: Post 1: Amiga 600 - If it's not one thing... Amiga 600 - If it's not one thing... There is a lovely line in Stellar Blade when Eve has narrowly escaped death yet again and comments that ' If it's not one thing then it's another'. Kinda out of character the way she says it but reflects my feelings sometimes. When you own a massive collection of old kit as I do you have to expect problems. I gotta say having used so much electrical kit in my time the one thing I never anticipated was that stuff was going to last forever. I kinda had a five year tops for most kit. When the Microvitec first broke on the Amiga 1200 I just simply had it repaired. It was no biggy and I was not surprised. Today I live in fear of things breaking, especially on my more treasured computers. The Amiga 600 I show here is one of my most favorite machines and she sits pride of place behind me here. Whilst she is not connected to a monitor I fired her up regularly to make sure the hard drive kept working. Sadly last summer after all these years the drive finally 'finally' died. Kinda sad. I had made a copy of the contents and plan a replacement this year. The process of getting the drive working often involved lifting the case cover and gently inverting the drive. In repeating this process I think I must have disturbed the ribbon cable, maybe even damaged it. The test kit results show most of the function keys not working and a couple of others. Worst case scenario I replace the membrane. Anyhoo.. I'm gonna put this test kit away. It gives me the creeps. In the end I'm more than capable of identifying a problem on a computer without the kit... PS I had to blame something. I mean how could it be me. Even though it was. We all make mistakes. Let's move on. Amiga 600 - If it's not one thing...

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