Case Studies in Retro Computer Repair #14: Diagnosing and Fixing a Faulty Non-Maskable Interrupt (NMI) Signal on an Atari 800XL

Introduction I recently received an Atari 800XL from a friend that was booting to a black screen. This required breaking out the oscilloscope to track down the problem. Case Study I started troubleshooting this computer by probing the pins of the 6502 with an oscilloscope after making sure all the chips were

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