It looked very nice from the top even in the auction, but one of the rear corners was completely sheared off and a big chunk of the rear case was broken off as well.
This was a major case screw location and it also needed a large gap filler for the big open space left. I wound up resculpting a corner from high strength epoxy putty and high strength epoxy on the busted seam. Works perfect now. The case is now sealed on the outer edge and still opens normally. Obvious repair but not ugly IMO.
I didn't do as much rigorous cleaning on the bottom of the the case for fear of damaging the original labels which were still in very good condition.
The internals were in worse shape than my 1982 UTS 40. The plate was nice but somebody had spilled something several times into the right side of the keyboard. Can't stop magnets that way though. So I did the usual teardown. Removed the covers, removed the sliders, scrubbed with alcohol by hand and then lubed and reassembled. The switch plastics were more brittle than my other ITW board though, and in the areas with the spills and jammed plastic, a few brittle sliders snapped one of their legs in removal. Fun part is, they only need one to work and the upper cover keeps them from popping out when put back together for extra security. Can't even tell when it's all back together.
It used a RJ12 type jack but with wider plastic, so an RJ45 is needed for a convertor. Testing a home flashed Soarer's with a spare teensy let me see the R05 errors when it connected and test all the switches for functionality since they always sent a start and stop code for each press. And they all worked great. The caps lock is a latching switch compared to the LED switch on my UTS 40 and uses a strange y shaped groove in the side of the slider that a hoop of wire sits in. Works nicely though.
And all back together, smooth, lubed and functional. Just wish there was an external convertor or even a different controller that would do the job of making it useable on a modern PC.
