u/Snocom79

Traded a Commodore monitor for an Atari Portable.

Was throwing out an old PC and saw this in the ewaste bin. Charger sitting right next to it. Got it home, popped some batteries in and it fired right up. Not a thing wrong with it from what I've seen. I've tried using my esp32 zimodem and it doesn't seem to connect like on my model 100 but commands work otherwise and this thing is almost spotless

I was gifted this model 4p and while it looks cool sitting on a shelf I'd like to get it to work. Buddy is a local enthusiast and runs a retro repair business he went through this machine and say //edit h thinks the Pal chips (if I understand correctly) are bad. I would love information on what I can do to revive this so that it is working.// Long story short is, this is all it does on power up. With disk inserted it only briefly lights up disk drive. Period and reset seem to make a couple of the letters jump on the screen but that is all.