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Hello,
I would like to volunteer to help with some restorations if at all possible.
I have a huge passion for vintage computers and I have a fair bit of experience with repairs of my own collection - such as soldering, replacing components, cleaning and general sprucing up of my old machines.
I work full time as a broadcast engineer and am available most weekends and sometimes weekdays if I’m lucky - just tell me when and where, anything I might need to bring and I’ll be there 
Cheers,
Stephen
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Hey @flonky_tash - thanks for reaching out.
We have workshops for members and volunteers on Saturdays 11-3. At the moment, we are sprucing up the displays and building some stories around our items, however there is a DEC Writer III, a TRS-80 and Arcade machine restoration in progress/about to progress.
These restorations are dependant on if certain groups are in that Saturday’s such as @paran01d working on the arcade, @sijnstra working on the TRS-80s, @cavok if in town on the Osbournes, or myself on the DEC gear with others.
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I’m planning to be in this Saturday (05/08) to continue work on hang-on. Was sick last weekend :(…
Will be lots of logic probing and rom dumping.
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@paran01d that sounds really interesting!
If it’s okay, I might pop by tomorrow (saturday) and help out where I can? It would be good to see the place and have a look around and see the place and meet people.
Ill be more than happy to show you what im up to and have a go. I’m honestly pretty green at it so always good to have help. You will be made very welcome and when I came in for the first time a few weeks ago I couldn’t believe the sheer amount of cool stuff here.
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