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Refurb Weekend: Atari Stacy

Ask any Atari Stacy owner how to open an Atari Stacy and the answer is always "never, if you can avoid it." So I'll just lead with this spoi...

For a couple years those promises largely came to naught until Atari management noticed how popular the on-board MIDI was with musicians and music studios, who started to make requests for a transportable system that could be used on the road. I don't have a replacement for the trackball board and I was likely to make things worse attempting to desolder and put in an equivalent switch, so after some thought I decided the least damaging option would be to improve the prong's contact with the button. Regardless, based on the amount of apoplexy and late-night screaming that Stacy caused over the past couple months' weekends, my wife has told me in no uncertain terms that if I'm ever going to crack this laptop open again, I need to have a good long talk with her about it first.

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