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I booted up my A1200 in 2008 to see if it still worked after ten years of disuse - it did.

Then a month ago in 2021 I booted it up again to see if it still worked after a further 13 years of disuse - and it did again.

Played Zool both times!

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If you want to make sure it boots up next time though, consider having it recapped : on A600/A1200/CD32 it's a matter of when, not if, low quality capacitors will leak and damage the board.

I do the same with my PowerPC iBook clamshell from time to time. Amazed the tiny PCMCIA sized 5GB spinny disk hard drive is still original!

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