May 12th-14th 2017 Cambridge ABUG (FULL) & Acorn World event at CCfCH

[dp11]

I should be able to fix pitube and possibly matchbox.

[sbadger]

Will there be anybody coming who can get my Matchbox and/or PiTube up and running? I think the Matchbox needs somebody with better eyesight than me to solder a capacitor on it, I can't remember what stalled me getting the PiTube working.

i'll be soldering caps on my kit and since last week wielding reading glasses (now i'm in the old man's eyes club), happy to help if i can.

[flynnjs]

Will there be anybody coming who can get my Matchbox and/or PiTube up and running? I think the Matchbox needs somebody with better eyesight than me to solder a capacitor on it, I can't remember what stalled me getting the PiTube working.

I shall be there we "official" Matchbox capacitors

I'll be bringing the usual assortment of repair gizmos for any other jobs too.

[Prime]

I'll be bringing the usual assortment of repair gizmos for any other jobs too.

Jason I remember speaking to you at the Leicester meetup, and asking about your led ring for your microscope, you said you may have a spare that I could have.......

Cheers.

Phill.

[daveejhitchins]

Also . . . If someone could bring a Power block, suitable for a Pi e.g. micro USB 2A/2.5A - Please

Thanks - Dave H

[dp11]

If I remember I will bring one as I design them.

[jgharston]

Right. 11am. Getting into the car. See you in three hours.

[Prime]

Just having a burger before getting on the M6 and heading to cambridge. See you all in a couple of hours.

Cheers.

Phill.

[Prime]

Just having a burger before getting on the M6 and heading to cambridge. See you all in a couple of hours.

Well I'm here now.

Cheers.

Phill.

[jgharston]

I'm at the B&B, going to unpack non-computery things, jump in the shower and have a cup of tea, then coming over,

[sydney]

First video from this weekend.

https://youtu.be/EoxLYtfYvxs

[Zarchos]

Guys (and ladies) I really envy you.

Please make some long videos, thank you.

[z0m8ied0g]

Just leaving now, will see you all later (probably about 10 ish)

[salmon92]

I'll be going to the museum tomorrow for most of the day, so I'll be sure to say hello. Looking forward to it!

[dixiestoat]

Me too. Hoping to be there for around opening time. 1st timer, looking forward to it..
Nick.

[Elminster]

I am composing a long list of questions for tomorrow when I have people cornered.

[Elminster]

Leaving to cross border into Cambridgeshire soon. Save me a parking space and make the rain go away.

[dixiestoat]

A trip out for lunch whilst Flynnjs kindly updates my Matchbox..
A couple of pics for starters...

[salmon92]

A trip out for lunch whilst Flynnjs kindly updates my Matchbox..
A couple of pics for starters...

Nice! I can see my friend and I hunched over the BBC Micros in the last picture!

[dixiestoat]

A couple more pics from me..
Something old Vs Something new..

Nick

[dixiestoat]

Plus this brought back some memories.. we had a Turtle at School..
Nick.

[Pernod]

Did I spy a Communicator in one of the earlier photos? As far as I know the ROMs have never been dumped, hope someone can rectify this.

[Elminster]

Was a good day out, got my new MGC, my new star dot tshirts and saw (heard) the next gen Beeb sound.

Plus me and my daughter played ever game in the place. And she says that Tricky's frogger is better than Acornsofts (which was on the electron in the main room).

Good organisation and looking forward to next year!

Edit: oh and the AP5 in action. Beebscsi mini was work in progress when I was hanging about.

[BigEd]

Did I spy a Communicator in one of the earlier photos? As far as I know the ROMs have never been dumped, hope someone can rectify this.

That's a very good idea! It must have a 65816 Basic, I think - see photo here.

[firthmj]

Enjoyable if short visit.

Thanks to jdnbeeb and everyone else involved for organising this!

Will be interesting to find out what the solution to the mystery failing CoPro was...

[hoglet]

Will be interesting to find out what the solution to the mystery failing CoPro was...

Pray tell more...

[firthmj]

Will be interesting to find out what the solution to the mystery failing CoPro was...

Pray tell more...

We had one of Jason's more recent green batch that wouldn't run the x86 or ARM designs properly - appeared to be an issue with the external RAM. When I left Jason and someone else (I didn't catch his name) were trying to work out what was up with it (and we'd been wrestling for several hours by that point).

We were using the latest released firmware from Nov 2016

[dp11]

It was me. Dave what ram speed it the copro expecting? With 70ns rev E chips tge x86 doesn't appear to work correctly some times you get ram faulty type 0/xxxx where xxxx appears to be random.

RevD ram at 70ns appear to work. Jason has tried all the usual tricks of adding extra decoupling etc.

[firthmj]

It was me.

Hi, apologies for not making introductions earlier!

[dp11]

No problem. I did sort off barge in.