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Oops, my obsession with computers from my childhood strikes again!

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Surprisingly little cracking.
Intro retro computers since before they were retro...
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Not to bad for 1984 rifa caps. How are the electrolytic on the motherboard there are 9 10uf 16v caps

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Tomswork wrote: 18 Aug 2021 18:55 Not to bad for 1984 rifa caps. How are the electrolytic on the motherboard there are 9 10uf 16v caps

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Electrolytics are actually just fine 😁
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Well, my RAM expansion for the AUX slot is with the Post Office, so should be here by the weekend, and I've ordered a Floppyemu today, expecting that to be a couple of weeks too. All ahead full :)
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Very good about the ram and emu
The big question is do you have a joystick 🕹

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Tomswork wrote: 25 Aug 2021 19:38 Very good about the ram and emu
The big question is do you have a joystick 🕹

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Not yet, but I can hopefully either find one cheap on eBay or build my own :)
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Woo Hoo

Extended RAM card for my Apple ][e is out for delivery today!!

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Yay! :-)
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AUX RAM card is here!!

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Very neat little unit, here it is in the slot:

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By default I can now jump into 80 Column mode by typing PR#3, so getting the additional 64KB at least, but I won't be able to test the memory setting utility until I get my FloppyEmu.

It's a start though.
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:dualthumbup:
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ZX81->Spectrum->Memotech MTX->Sinclair QL->520STM->BBC Micro->TT030->PCs & Sun Workstations.
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