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Vintage computers live again.

I look for broken retro machines, recap and repair them, test them fully, and pass them along to people who will enjoy them. You may already know me as wildcopper on eBay.

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Restoration gallery

A selection of machines I've brought back. Each one was repaired, tested and cleaned before going to a new home.

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Amiga 4000/040

68040, 18MB RAM, AmigaOS 3.2.3, original keyboard and mouse.

Amiga 3000

25MHz 68030, 18MB RAM, BlueSCSI storage, keyboard and mouse.

Amiga 2000

25MHz '030 accelerator, set up with WHDLoad.

Amiga 1200 (NTSC)

Recapped, TF1260 50MHz '060 accelerator, 128MB RAM, boxed.

Amiga 500 (early, Kickstart 1.2)

Rev 5 board, +0.5MB RAM, original box, PSU and joystick.

Commodore 128D

Cleaned and tested in all three modes.

Commodore 64 (silver label)

Early silver-label C64 with original box, power supply and manuals.

Macintosh IIci

Recapped, 64MB RAM, cache card, BlueSCSI, Extended keyboard and mouse.

Apple IIc Plus

Tested with Apple diagnostics, with power cord and its System and Tour disks.
Before / after

Battery leak, undone

The clock battery on this Amiga 3000 board had leaked, and the corrosion was creeping toward the chips around it. The fix:

  • Sockets. Replaced the Paula and Denise sockets.
  • Chips. Removed three TTL chips affected by corrosion and fitted sockets with new chips.
  • Clean-up. Took the battery area back to clean copper with a fiberglass pen.
  • Parts. Replaced several passive components.
  • Board. Repaired a damaged trace.
Amiga 3000 motherboard before repair, with green corrosion around the clock battery and nearby chips
BEFORE
The same board after repair, cleaned, with the battery removed and new sockets and chips fitted
AFTER

How a machine gets restored

  1. 01 Inspect Open it up, photograph everything, and check for battery leakage, corrosion, and cracked plastics.
  2. 02 Repair Replace aging capacitors and failed chips, fix damaged traces, and fit new boards where an original can't be saved.
  3. 03 Clean and test Clean it inside and out, run diagnostics, then a long burn-in with real software, drives included where fitted.
  4. 04 Pack and ship Pack it as if it were my own. A 30-year-old computer only gets one trip through the mail, so packing gets as much care as the repair.

What buyers say

2,400+ eBay ratings 100% positive member since 1998
"When it arrived it was packaged to protect it from everything short of a zombie apocalypse. I’ve never had something packaged so well."
eBay buyer Amiga 500, Kickstart 1.2
"Having large retro computers shipped through the post is always worrying but wildcopper does a fantastic job of packaging them."
eBay buyer Amiga 4000/040, repeat buyer
"Fast shipping with excellent protective packaging for the heavy Amiga 2000."
eBay buyer Amiga 2000
"Antique computer was restored excellently and I was impressed with my purchase."
eBay buyer Restored machine
"Incredible clean quality build, well packed, and great support after!"
eBay buyer Amiga 600
"10/10 seller, went above and beyond in helping answer questions."
eBay buyer Amiga 1200
"Thanks for helping me relive my teens with this iconic 80's computer."
eBay buyer Amiga 500
"This replaces a computer I had in the 80s with one like new…"
eBay buyer Apple IIc

Why the name? It comes from the Amiga's copper coprocessor, the chip that drew the raster bars, skies and scrollers this page recreates.

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