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Emergency light packed in Bad connection on the battery! Oddly the connections to seem to be solder blobs that had corroded Back up and running again now though
exxos wrote: Fri Jul 01, 2022 4:11 pm
Had this brilliant donation today by @supaduper
Now I can get the CPU in and out of of the socket in in less than an hour! and hopefully without destroying the socket & CPU as well now!
Ooooh, nice. I do like a bit of zero insertion force, those normal sockets are such a sod to get stuff out of.
Collector of many retro things!
800XL and 65XE both with Ultimate1MB,VBXL/XE & PokeyMax, SIDE3, SDrive Max, 2x 1010 cassette, 2x 1050 one with Happy mod, 3x 2600 Jr, 7800 and Lynx II
Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
Plus the rest, totalling around 50 machines including a QL, 3x BBC Model B, Electron, Spectrums, ZX81 etc...
DFB1 Open source 50MHz 030 and TT-RAM accelerator for the Falcon Smalliermouse ST-optimised USB mouse adapter based on SmallyMouse2 FrontBench The Frontier: Elite 2 intro as a benchmark
Badwolf wrote: Fri Jul 01, 2022 4:21 pm
Very nice. And an EPROM to boot!
Yep. Now I think about it the latest firmware could have had a slow down for the ROM. Though I guess it doesn't really matter as ROM is copied into RAM anyway.
I did buy a load of those EPROMs. Really should put them in my store at some point
rubber_jonnie wrote: Fri Jul 01, 2022 4:13 pm
Ooooh, nice. I do like a bit of zero insertion force.
I concur! But that's normally on weekends
Oooooh errrr missus!
Collector of many retro things!
800XL and 65XE both with Ultimate1MB,VBXL/XE & PokeyMax, SIDE3, SDrive Max, 2x 1010 cassette, 2x 1050 one with Happy mod, 3x 2600 Jr, 7800 and Lynx II
Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
Plus the rest, totalling around 50 machines including a QL, 3x BBC Model B, Electron, Spectrums, ZX81 etc...