OK, it’s only Tuesday but I’m pretty sure I’m not going to top this! 
And I’m not talking about any daft XBOX 360 achievements; this is a bona fide hardcore gaming achievement...
Yesterday I completed successful transplant surgery to turn two non-functional 20-odd year old Commodore 1541 disk drives into a single working one! Thanks to Ray Carlsen’s Commodore Repair Articles I worked out the likely cause of the problem with one of the two drives, and after an hour of unscrewing, replacing PCBs, putting the original PCB back in again and finally transplanting three ROM chips I managed to get the drive up and running!
All this is particularly timely as the C64 is next on my chronological list of systems to play on, so now I can not only play games but also transfer tape-based games to disk. I can also finally play the copy of Nobby the Aardvark that I picked up months ago – yippee! 
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