xmechanic
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Well, after 10 years or so of sitting in my back room basically untouched, I got my neighbor kid to come and help me move the 820-II back to my workbench/kitchen table, and proceeded to do a deep clean and inspection of everything before trying to restart it. I borrowed a variac from a friend of mine to bring the power up slowly, so as not to shock load all the capacitors, and then rebooted at full power, and everything came back up like it should. The HDD is fine, 8 in. floppy is fine, and life is good! Plus, the flyback transformer in the monitor doesn't squeal anymore?! Maybe the electronic fairy has been here at some point in the recent past? Anyway, once I relearned some of the commands, and got the sticky keyboard to play nice, I loaded SuperCalc 3 and a working database, and all seems well!