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Re: General Stuff(tm)
Posted: 18 Apr 2024 21:19
by stephen_usher
Got down to my Dad's house in Cornwall this evening and found the broadband dead.
After about 45 minutes on the phone the BT it seems that there's a general BT Openreach outage in the area. Oh well, having to use my phone as a 4G relay.
Re: General Stuff(tm)
Posted: 18 Apr 2024 23:05
by rubber_jonnie
stephen_usher wrote: 18 Apr 2024 21:19
Got down to my Dad's house in Cornwall this evening and found the broadband dead.
After about 45 minutes on the phone the BT it seems that there's a general BT Openreach outage in the area. Oh well, having to use my phone as a 4G relay.
That's bloody annoying.
Re: General Stuff(tm)
Posted: 19 Apr 2024 09:09
by stephen_usher
Yeah. Thankfully it's back again this morning.
Re: General Stuff(tm)
Posted: 20 Apr 2024 14:46
by stephen_usher
Back home again. I may get time for some retro stuff this weekend but I'm really tired after leaving Cornwall at 7:30am.
Re: General Stuff(tm)
Posted: 20 Apr 2024 15:47
by rubber_jonnie
stephen_usher wrote: 20 Apr 2024 14:46
Back home again. I may get time for some retro stuff this weekend but I'm really tired after leaving Cornwall at 7:30am.
Seems like it's been a busy few days, a rest is always good.
Re: General Stuff(tm)
Posted: 21 Apr 2024 15:33
by stephen_usher
I finally got time this afternoon to build, as much as I can with the parts I have in stock, a relocator/decoder board for
@jakesdad77. He first asked for it at the end of January but life has got in the way.
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The 10K resistors I have are a bit large for this board so I had to bodge them a bit. Otherwise it's just the two CPU sockets and the pins for the motherboard CPU and the one pin for the ROM socket which will need to be installed.
Re: General Stuff(tm)
Posted: 21 Apr 2024 19:54
by stephen_usher
Brought the Apricot FP back from storage ready for next month's potables exhibition in Cambridge. It still works.
You had to have strong arms if you used a portable in the 1980s. :-)
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I'm a bit concerned about the FP's display though. Given the ambient lighting in the museum's main hall, even with the LED light overhead I'm not sure the screen will be viewable.
Re: General Stuff(tm)
Posted: 21 Apr 2024 21:38
by rubber_jonnie
I know what you mean about the weight of these old portables, I have an Amstrad Alt-386 and it's a dead weight.
Re: General Stuff(tm)
Posted: 22 Apr 2024 19:51
by stephen_usher
The difference in LCD technology in only 5 years...
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Re: General Stuff(tm)
Posted: 22 Apr 2024 19:56
by agranlund
stephen_usher wrote: 22 Apr 2024 19:51
The difference in LCD technology in only 5 years...
Is that left machine running Gem for PC? :)