ABug EAST MIDLANDS 27-29 January 2017 (Leicestershire)

[Arcadian]

Glad you got in haha, see you all later, hope to be dropping by around 9.30ish...

[jgharston]

I risked dismantling my main setup to bring my Master with me, so I can do hardware stuff I can't do with my Compact. Currently *COMPACTing my 512M IDE drive.


A, ahem, portable Master:


Busy people:

[Prime]

Well I'm happy.......

Cheers.

Phill.

[daveejhitchins]

Have a great time guys. I'm having to suffer 26deg C - and it's 22:30

Dave H

[jgharston]

Backing up Arcadian's hard drive over the network. It balked at transfering the 20M DOS image, so FSplit'ing it with the maximum MTU we could manage, 320K. (That is, before somebody tripped over the power lead for the centre table....)


Luckily, after restoring the power we just restarted at part 24.

[danielj]

Pleased to see this getting imaged!

d.

[Arcadian]

Yep, thanks Jonathan for your work on this - it's certainly saved me a lot of time archiving to hundreds of floppies!

[Arcadian]

Here's the group photo for this weekend's ABug!

Thanks Alex for organising!

[1024MAK]

Some 'photos...

Plenty going on...

Investigation of a fault with a 'scope...

Switch that noise off!

Normal service will resume shortly...

Sound repairs?

[1024MAK]

Testing, testing after PSU repairs...

Honest, lots of work is being done :-)

Techinican's spin...

At least someone is busy :-)

Cue the videodisc

[1024MAK]

Ceefax returns?

Or does it?

No more table space available

Development tunes

Hopefully it will be mastered soon... :-)

[1024MAK]

ROM RAM board

Some under the age of XXXX spotted!

More testing!

The longest tune ever!!!!!

[davidb]

Very good! Please keep them coming.

[BigEd]

Great to have the photos - keep them coming!

Anyone got plans, vague or otherwise, for going over to the local computer museum on Sunday afternoon? Or indeed, Sunday morning?

Entrance to the museum costs £6.50 for adults and £3.50 for children - with over 40 systems that are fully hands on!
29th January - 11am-5.30pm

- http://www.retrocomputermuseum.co.uk/

[jgharston]

Recovering Alex's hard drive. This one needed a spell of cryonic manipulation followed by application of accelative thrust and a change of local gravity orientation.

[hoglet]

All the photos are very much appreciated. Sounds like everyone is having a great time. Keep them coming!

[1024MAK]

Some better quality (bigger file size, less compression) versions of the 'photos that I posted are here

Mark

[JudgeBeeb]

I have one final BeebOPL kit with me. If anyone here would like it, please let me know. Unless I decide to do a third run of boards (and order a third batch of Yamaha chips) – and I have no plans to do that – this really is the final kit.

[1024MAK]

Did everyone remember to fill the form in?
Copy attached...

APPLICATION FOR ATTENDING ABUG EVENTS

[oss003]

Nice photo's, thanks....

I see a Doomsday machine, a BeebOPL, a harddisk, some broken Beebs, a broken Atom, beer .....
Can somebody please give a summary of ongoing projects?

Greetings
Kees

[1024MAK]

Sunday morning and it's getting busy again...

Overview

Arc repairs

More repair work

That's not an Acorn!

Phill did try to bring it back to life.

A different arm technology LOL

Robots are taking over...

Mark

[jbnbeeb]

Great pics!
Wish I coulda made it down but even the form posted upthread wouldn't have worked as it was other half's birthday this w/e.

It'd be great to hear about some of the projects you've all been working on

[1024MAK]

Metal Cased BBC B Micro

The Metal Cased BBC B Micro (which you may have seen in the photos earlier in this thread) from this thread has a new thread detailing it and the repair work done. The link to the new thread is here

Mark

[Arcadian]

Today's group piccie!

[flibble]

I had a great time over the weekend and got a lot done!

pico, md5sum, sha256sum, mini_httpd, lua, angband compiled up for Risc iX
My A4 keyboard works again with assistance from Phil M
I had a go at writing a program using the BBC Graphics Extension Rom sprite plotting routines, it works!

Many thanks to Alex for organising, it's a great addition to the events calendar.

[Prime]

I had a great time over the weekend and got a lot done!

pico, md5sum, sha256sum, mini_httpd, lua, angband compiled up for Risc iX
My A4 keyboard works again with assistance from Phil M

Phill HS But no probs glad to be of assistance.

I had a go at writing a program using the BBC Graphics Extension Rom sprite plotting routines, it works!

Many thanks to Alex for organising, it's a great addition to the events calendar.

Aggreed

Cheers.

Phill.

[JonC]

Good do guys, just got back home!

Great weekend Alex, went off with nary a hitch!

Sadly the A5000 still doesn't work.
But my Elk MRB lives again thanks to some bits from Phill.

[flynnjs]

Alex,
thanks for organising, it was a good event. Got there about 16:00 on Friday and got home about 17:20 Sunday.
What I've learned:
Random LV-ROM fault facts
Don't open Olivetti PCs and expect an easy time
All the different types of joystick interface
Most Acorn hackers are slightly shy of very small SMD components
I always have fun at ABUGs!

Hope to see many of you again in Cambridge in May.

J

[flibble]

Phill HS But no probs glad to be of assistance.

Oops, it seems I need to phill in my address book.

[flaxcottage]

A great weekend! Thanks for organising it Alex.

I didn't exactly get much done practically - everything I attempted needed resources from back at base!! I did, however, discover that building an Aluminium Smelting plant in Clowne, Derbyshire, powered by a nuclear reactor is a recipe for losing a lot of money (courtesy of 'Aluminium' from Longman Software).

I gained a BeebOPL kit (thank you very much to Lazaruser) - perhaps I can annoy the neighbours with Beeb Rock at high volume.

Having a meet at a pub is a great idea; all that was missing was an open bar in the ABUG room.

Hopefully we'll meet again at the RISCOS Show in Wakefield, if I can get out of my meeting that day!