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Question to the #Commodore repair community out there: I see videos where people take out the cardboard "shields" from their old computers. Is this a safe thing to do, and why?

Also, where can one get modern heatsinks that can fit a SID/VIC/TED/6510? And what else needs them?

dirk dierickx · 6w

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqmu5rsd92m2cdka78hrrly3fqynf3zzy952ly6cha53q2zjdzvsqq2p4nx5 do you mean the rf shielding? You can mostly remove these, in those days it could be that those computers disrupted other devices such as radio and tv, but that's no longer the case.