Hello, new user from Lincolnshire UK
Posted: 25 Jul 2023 16:16
Hi Everyone St Lovers afar.
Just thought I would start of my 1st forum post on here, and perhaps be pointed in the right direction.
My name is Jamie, I own a small collection of old computers, bit of a passion of mine among manynother hobbies, musician, artist and bit of a builder and general hippy geek lol.back in the early 90s I owned a 520STFM, but started out with Amstrad cpc464 and speccy plus 2 and 3 but was using acorn archimedes at school and friends pc. Also owned amigas used for sampling etc. Many years later I have aquired a 520ste and another amiga 1200 plan is to make them nice and max them out for the joy of it and make them do things I never did back in the day.
I bought 4mb ram of Exxos forum shop, and I wish to do the mandatory fixes and tweaks, PSU gets very hot and smells, so Im considering purchasing the toroid one rather than a recap, Someone once said if it works leave it but i like to future proof. I also like idea of switchable TOS and switchable CPU booster, also I plan on keeping internal floppy :-) Already bought the sd4st SDHD its great but I love floppies call me sad but I do haha.. Now then after scanning the forum I think The sony drive requires some new caps and a service, it spins but nothing happens. I have taken a pic of the model. Also I have just taken photos of the internals with part numbers as I am hoping to get some these extra modification parts via the forum shop.
Shall i upload all my pics to thks new thread re these upgrades or am I best of starting this elsewhere.?
Thanks very much indeed, Jamie. :)
Just thought I would start of my 1st forum post on here, and perhaps be pointed in the right direction.
My name is Jamie, I own a small collection of old computers, bit of a passion of mine among manynother hobbies, musician, artist and bit of a builder and general hippy geek lol.back in the early 90s I owned a 520STFM, but started out with Amstrad cpc464 and speccy plus 2 and 3 but was using acorn archimedes at school and friends pc. Also owned amigas used for sampling etc. Many years later I have aquired a 520ste and another amiga 1200 plan is to make them nice and max them out for the joy of it and make them do things I never did back in the day.
I bought 4mb ram of Exxos forum shop, and I wish to do the mandatory fixes and tweaks, PSU gets very hot and smells, so Im considering purchasing the toroid one rather than a recap, Someone once said if it works leave it but i like to future proof. I also like idea of switchable TOS and switchable CPU booster, also I plan on keeping internal floppy :-) Already bought the sd4st SDHD its great but I love floppies call me sad but I do haha.. Now then after scanning the forum I think The sony drive requires some new caps and a service, it spins but nothing happens. I have taken a pic of the model. Also I have just taken photos of the internals with part numbers as I am hoping to get some these extra modification parts via the forum shop.
Shall i upload all my pics to thks new thread re these upgrades or am I best of starting this elsewhere.?
Thanks very much indeed, Jamie. :)