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Poor thing has been in the wars and is totally filthy but it sounds effing awesome!
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A very nice BBC Model B with Econet installed. I have never owned a Model B before.
A floppy drive for the BBC
and another great case for a Raspberry PI 4 that runs RISC OS 5. (I still need to screw the PI in hence the loose lid )
All from @ukwebb ! Great helpful guy, who bought me a coffee too! Thanks mate, really appreciate all the effort on these!
David
A floppy drive for the BBC
and another great case for a Raspberry PI 4 that runs RISC OS 5. (I still need to screw the PI in hence the loose lid )
All from @ukwebb ! Great helpful guy, who bought me a coffee too! Thanks mate, really appreciate all the effort on these!
David
BBC Master, BBC Model B, Electron, A5000, A4000, RISC PC, PIBridge, Piconet, and too many Raspberry PI's and now an A4
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An AUI to 10BaseT adapter for my A5000:
Just got to get it all hooked up and working.
Just got to get it all hooked up and working.
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A nice wee electron, with a very dirty keyboard……. and a few keys not working
See second photo for solution to faulty keys…..D13 has a broken leg.
looks like someone was sick as a parrot…..
See second photo for solution to faulty keys…..D13 has a broken leg.
looks like someone was sick as a parrot…..
Electron, Plus 3 and plus 1, AP6 and Home made MMFS PP SD interface
Electron Plus 1 Pres AP3/4 AP5 MGC ELKWiFi MRB
Beeb issue 7 with IFEL 16 socket Rom/Ram board
Master 128,CoPro
Master Compact
StrongA RPC,
Atom, Music 5000 and Keyboard
Electron Plus 1 Pres AP3/4 AP5 MGC ELKWiFi MRB
Beeb issue 7 with IFEL 16 socket Rom/Ram board
Master 128,CoPro
Master Compact
StrongA RPC,
Atom, Music 5000 and Keyboard
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A bumper delivery today:
Caps for my Saturn, composite mod for my Intellivision, ULIfAC for my CPC and I don't think the book needs any introduction.
Caps for my Saturn, composite mod for my Intellivision, ULIfAC for my CPC and I don't think the book needs any introduction.
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A dusty, but functional Voltmace Delta 3b (original price £12.00 on the box) and an IFEL battery-backed RAM ROM cartridge
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Some Intellivision carts that arrived today:
Both complete in box (Though scruffy) with inlays and instructions.
Both complete in box (Though scruffy) with inlays and instructions.
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BBC Bs, Master 128s, Master Compact, and Electrons, and an A3000 with an ARM3
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Collected this gorgeous A5000 Alpha (8MB) from Sarah at ABUG this weekend. At the event steve3000 very kindly did the filter modification for it. Much playing of demos ensued.
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Very nice...NickLuvsRetro wrote: ↑Sun Nov 12, 2023 5:24 pm Collected this gorgeous A5000 Alpha (8MB) from Sarah at ABUG this weekend. At the event steve3000 very kindly did the filter modification for it. Much playing of demos ensued.
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That's interesting Dave - I'm just looking at an Electron where all the keys in column 0, P, ;, \ are only working intermittently. There must be some common failure mode and a dry joint or something the diode could be it. I assume this one had a column which wasn't working at all?
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Fear not, I'm not jumping ship to this up-and-coming new kid on the block. A bit of revision for some reverse-engineering. One of these is widely available online, I might scan the other. I just love my physical books.
I just hope I can write some stuff to do it proper justice.
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Drove out to a village tonight to pick up a lot of stuff... including a very grotty 1040 STE, but I rather like this! (and there's some disks locked in a metal container that might be worth greaseweazling... perhaps some state secrets from the early 90s )
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And here is that cartridge case. Nice.
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...a single missing Caps Lock key from CJE.
It's not always the big fancy things that make a machine - every part counts.
It's not always the big fancy things that make a machine - every part counts.
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Econet kit: PiEconetBridge and hub, two ADF-10s, a PicoNet and cables
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A BBC Model B Issue 3!
I finally gave up ever being able to repair my issue 3 board and managed to pick up a complete one, minus PSU, for basically what a professional repair would have cost. Came as tested with a 1770 controller I've not seen before.
The guy had a few Beebs and my one ask was that it be as original and untouched as possible. I think it cleaned up rather well!
The case above had the usual 40 years of grime on it but gentle application of baking soda managed to get into the textured case's nook and crannies. The keyboard, well, was a more than a little grubby...
I finally gave up ever being able to repair my issue 3 board and managed to pick up a complete one, minus PSU, for basically what a professional repair would have cost. Came as tested with a 1770 controller I've not seen before.
The guy had a few Beebs and my one ask was that it be as original and untouched as possible. I think it cleaned up rather well!
The case above had the usual 40 years of grime on it but gentle application of baking soda managed to get into the textured case's nook and crannies. The keyboard, well, was a more than a little grubby...
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A complete Electron board and internal PSU, hopefully I can get my sad broken Electron back up and running again
Arrived in the post just now, unpacked and warming up in my workshop
Arrived in the post just now, unpacked and warming up in my workshop
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So . . . Does it work? - Dave H.
Available: ARA II : ARA III-JR/PR : ABR : AP5 : AP6 : ABE : ATI : MGC : Plus 1 Support ROM : Plus 3 2nd DA : Prime's Plus 3 ROM/RAM : Pegasus 400 : Prime's MRB : ARCIN32 : Cross-32
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Indeed it does
Though the keyboard cable in the dead machine it was going in was fairly awful, so I had to do a rewire, and also some of the key switches needed a dose of electrolube to get going again.
Aside from being very yellowed, it's all running fine and just needs to be reassembled.
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Excellent . . . Dave H.
Available: ARA II : ARA III-JR/PR : ABR : AP5 : AP6 : ABE : ATI : MGC : Plus 1 Support ROM : Plus 3 2nd DA : Prime's Plus 3 ROM/RAM : Pegasus 400 : Prime's MRB : ARCIN32 : Cross-32
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All finished and working lovely, though a few of the keys needed the switches servicing.daveejhitchins wrote: ↑Sat Dec 02, 2023 9:23 pmExcellent . . . Dave H.
Seen here with its less yellow sibling:
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My radio operator's licence!
Code: Select all
$ bbcbasic
PDP11 BBC BASIC IV Version 0.45
(C) Copyright J.G.Harston 1989,2005-2024
>_
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Congratulations Jonathan!
That reminds me, I meant to post this nice find, from a charity shop in Ripon this weekend. Not strictly speaking vintage, but a nice Kent Engineers Hand Morse Key, minus a couple of parts I’m hoping to buy replacements for.
That reminds me, I meant to post this nice find, from a charity shop in Ripon this weekend. Not strictly speaking vintage, but a nice Kent Engineers Hand Morse Key, minus a couple of parts I’m hoping to buy replacements for.
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Awesome Jonathan!
Electron (+1, +3, AP5)
Electron (RH +1, Pegasus)
BBC B 1770, boobip, Acorn Speech,Econet)
BBC B+ 128k (Acorn Speech)
Master 512 (ARA III, VideoNuLA, Econet)
PiTubeDirect, RGBtoHDMI, Pi1MHZ
Master Compact (Econet)
Econet: RiscPC 700 / A3020 / A3000
Electron (RH +1, Pegasus)
BBC B 1770, boobip, Acorn Speech,Econet)
BBC B+ 128k (Acorn Speech)
Master 512 (ARA III, VideoNuLA, Econet)
PiTubeDirect, RGBtoHDMI, Pi1MHZ
Master Compact (Econet)
Econet: RiscPC 700 / A3020 / A3000
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Indeed, congrats Jonathan...
I never came that far but I still have all my CB transceivers from the 80's...
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Most sincere Congratulations
Sorry for my late response (I didn't visit the *. site for several weeks).
Gr tings, Louis
May your wires be long and your nerves be strong
May your wires be long and your nerves be strong
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I’m very late to this thread. I’ve just bought one of these and I’m having issues. Can I ask what temp do you set it to and apart from regularly cleaning the nozzle, how do you maintain max suction pressure?jonb wrote: ↑Mon May 18, 2015 2:48 pm Today I received what our American cousins refer to as a "desaddering" station.
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It works too, although the fan is noisy.
Here is a 40 pin DIL removed:
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And the chip is perfectly useable once the lags are cleaned up a little.
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Elapsed time about 10 minutes. Try that with a sucker and wick!
Best Regards - Ron
Restoring all things BBCs and Electrons
Restoring all things BBCs and Electrons
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I use about 360C usually. I hated the thing until I honed my technique: Get the iron up to temperature. Carefully and gently but accurately (perfectly perpendicular to the board) apply the nozzle over the joint and apply only very light pressure. WAIT until the solder has melted (not instantly and nominally less than 3 seconds) - then activate the suction, whilst wiggling the gun around the leg. Lift and then stop the suction. Clean out the nozzle every 10 joints or so and also always before powering off.
Too much force and boards are easily damaged. Suck too early and it won’t clean out the joint. No wiggling and only one side of the joint will be cleaned.