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Hi Ian, There was very little crud visible at all, no visible green junk! The battery had a bit of fluff on it, which seemed to be mostly dust from the PSU. The symptoms were the same before a deeper clean. A pic from before the bath, but after I'd snipped the battery off. https://i.postimg.cc/pV1Xv...

Hi. Got a RPC 600 off fleabay. It's fitted with Arm610, 3.5 ROM's, FDD, HDD and Cumana CD-ROM. For testing I'm just connecting the floppy alone. I've tried with one stick or the other of RAM and with and without VRAM installed, symptons always the same. Battery area does not look bad at all after a ...

StrongARM 233 CPU for RPC
486 DX4 100MHz PC Card for RPC (two of)

Interested in these. Will send you a PM.

IanJeffray wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 04, 2021 8:33 pm

Donberg confirmed they goofed the photo in the confirmation. 8 are now on their way to me

nice, let me know when they arrive and i'll happily buy 2 off you.

You can see a video of an AKF11 power switch here

https://youtu.be/xk0z6wG_xzs

Skip to 4:30

It appears the holes would be needed to mount it properly

It annoys me that they're designed for spade connectors but are soldered on anyway. Bah. Here they are at Donberg . There is a minimum order value though - I guess you could always buy a load and sell any spares on eBay. Well, the part on the website is this: Orig.PNG But Donberg have come back quo...

The AKF11 power switch issue is *very* common on these CM8833 type monitors. You see a lot of them with paperclips holding in the power button! Donberg had replacement switches last time I needed to buy some. I can dig out the part number if you want. Fitting them isn't hard but you do need to be a...

Interested in any Archimedes keyboard people may wish to sell - hoping to avoid CJE and Ebay prices!

I have a 310 and a 5000 and a half working 310 keyboard, so while it may be repairable I'd like another one in the mean time.

Thanks

Mike

Brilliant. Typical that I snag a rare and broken one :shock: Well, you did get it for basically nothing. A total steal =D> Have you determined which part of the key mech is failed? I'd assume those rubber cups can be sourced. I'd love to see some more photos of the motherboard, which would presumab...

Brilliant. Typical that I snag a rare and broken one

I disassembled the keyboard but had no luck. From what people said I was expecting to find "foam and foil" type switches like these: https://texelec.com/product/foam-capacitive-pads-keytronic/ but they're not. Instead each key has a rubber membrane underneath which has a little capacitive...

The AKF11 power switch issue is *very* common on these CM8833 type monitors. You see a lot of them with paperclips holding in the power button! Donberg had replacement switches last time I needed to buy some. I can dig out the part number if you want. Fitting them isn't hard but you do need to be a...

DutchAcorn wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 02, 2021 10:14 am

From the timing and the description I had assumed you had picked up this one sold on ebay.

Can you please share some photos of the keyboard and the construction?

It's that one. I will take some pictures later, it's partially reassembled again.

I would like to get my Master Compact online, for telnet/BBS. I'd also be interested in serial transfer from a PC. UPURS is out of the question as it's a User Port serial interface, not RS232. I have several questions that I'm really unsure about. 1) I would need a cable. The Master Compact has the ...

I disassembled the keyboard but had no luck. From what people said I was expecting to find "foam and foil" type switches like these: https://texelec.com/product/foam-capacitive-pads-keytronic/ but they're not. Instead each key has a rubber membrane underneath which has a little capacitive ...

For the keyboard; it still has has the function key holder: don’t try to remove it (to clean). The plastic is brittle, It will most likely break. For the keyboard keys, apart from the dirt the pads on the keyboard PCB can get tarnished. Some silver or copper polish cleans them up nicely. Be careful...

Memroy upgrade on an A310 can be a fiddle, for sure. Backplane, RISC OS 3, ARM3 are all pretty trivial. You're spot-on there. A 4MB A400 would have been a better buy, honestly. Or an A5000, for its ARM3. These are easy to fix. Remove 3-gazillion screws, and you get access to the pads. I've cleaned ...

Hi all I picked up a completely stock A310 along with an AKF11 monitor this week. The AKF11 is fantastic, brilliant picture and sound. The power switch is being a bit reluctant to always work. Bit worried it's going to stick in the "off" position, so may leave it switched "on" fo...

No, when a best offer is accepted the price isn't shown in the completed listing except to the buyer and seller. I don't mind saying I offered £100 and it was accepted. The monitors working 100%, so even if the A310 is dead as described I'm not too bothered as it's a nice Akf11 with SCART and RGB. ...

Basic busted A310/kb/monitor in Ormskirk - collection only, alas - could be a steal for a local. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/hey_stardot/193872618405 I snagged this after the seller accepted my offer! I'm waiting for him to test the monitor with something else before completing the sale though. So w...

Basic busted A310/kb/monitor in Ormskirk - collection only, alas - could be a steal for a local. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/hey_stardot/193872618405 I snagged this after the seller accepted my offer! I'm waiting for him to test the monitor with something else before completing the sale though. So w...

I know these monitors aren't usually paired with a Beeb but I have the monitor and the Beeb so I may as well try! Does anyone have anything suitable or is able to build one? It would need to be 15-pin Dsub (Female) to 6-pin DIN (male). The AKF50 cable is permanently attached. My understanding is the...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BBC-Model-B- ... Sw575gDt5I

Viglen cased Model B.
Looks nice and clean.

Hi Steve If/when I get an internal Gotek sorted for my Master Compact, I may be willing to offer you my original Sony Master Compact drive. This isn't happening any time immediately as a nice guy on Facebook is offering to design and print me a nice Gotek bracket, but we're not finished yet as he's ...

I have Exile boxed for the Compact if you are interested, however I am not convinced the disk is fine. It boots but I failed to image it properly using Omniflop/Omnidisk, but this could also have been an issue with my PC setup. Has the manual and novella, with some writing in from previous owner. D...

Hi everyone. I have a Master Compact and an SD2BBC from thefuturewas8bit which connects via the joystick port (which has some user port signals on the Compact, I believe?). It came with a Smart SPI ROM, but I'm looking to try MMFS out. Am I right in thinking the "T" release -> MAMMFS would...

I am going to withdraw my interest also. Thanks all.

Stwert wrote: ↑

Sat Sep 12, 2020 11:26 pm

No worries, I can either do the ROM for you on it’s own, or if you’d rather wait a little and make sure the Facebook offer pans out, just in case I need to do both for you. Either way is fine, just let me know.

I will let you know. Thank you again

Yes, that's no problem, just use *DISC for DFS and *ADFS for ADFS. You can even configure which one the machine boots up in as a default. Having a single drive is the best option for you I think. Do you still want a dual drive cable anyway though? This thread includes some photos of inside the mach...

The cable is non-standard and has to be made up by hand. However, I think I have a spare one which I'd be happy to send you. Similarly, if I have a spare EPROM I could make you a DFS rom. There are also other members on here who could do it. The pitfalls with the dual-drive setup are: 1) The fascia...