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still think its a bit of a waste & curfuffle 8) unless you took the broken M128 apart & used the key switches for an electron! =D> If it's in good condition , ie Not rusted to bits as they usually are, Retro clinic /MarkH was after them a while ago, so must be scarce compared to B Micro. :shock:

plus why anciently touch the wrong colours?? unless colour blind

/\ he wanted -5 & -3.3 so hence use a ATX

they only throw out .5amp'ish so perfect for other stuff to attach.

New ones don't have -v anymore

welcome Chris

Just use a PC desktop ATX PSU.
Depending on age, it has -5 & -3.3 already.
plenty YouTube vids on how to do it, but it's a no brainer anyways .

^ usually Dup when on mobile, as when I press Submit , nothing happens , so I press again... again ... again, Not forum software fault , just cap mobile phones or cap (cap? I wrote Crap !$#@) fibre bband :lol: that's just me though, very impatient with new technology, it's 2018 :roll: & things shoul...

See someone else has read the boring Who moved my cheese book! I like the way it is, being can change silently before someone posts after it. Also with stupid predicted text on useless Mobile phones nowaays (<nowadays :roll: ) that don't know retro slang , then have to edit it as never noticed it ch...

Always keep your electron together , they get lonely apart! There is three versions of motherboard being Iss2 (the best) Iss4, & Iss6 (crap as lead sockets don't line up) The keyboards are same on all Iss2s, & iss4&6 are same, but as you notice different 2 v 4/6. Don't know how it wobbles, have you ...

Coeus wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 13, 2018 7:05 pm

Presumably two extra holes - an extra index hole and an extra write protect notch

yip :

rharper wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 13, 2018 4:05 pm

OK with DFS discs

well, well I never

welcome Robin

welcome Paul

Coeus wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 13, 2018 7:05 pm

1) Was anything else special about them? 2)Yellow plastic sleeve maybe?

1. no
2. just a yellow case, & it did not smell of Bananas either

will get a pic of mine on Saturday , unless someone already has a pic....
... just checked google pics, & none

go into your old mobile / tablet 5v Adaptor drawer, pick out something 1AMP for a non modded Atom.
if new mods, or old ram mod boards, use >1AMP

I use these, easy as pie

welcome James

agree on electrons, but need a plus1 to open it to full potential!

or could it have been the tape itself having become fragile? ^This never use old tape decks from 1982~ [-X use a new Sony HiFi Walkman ONLY :wink: if auto stop always kicks in, copy it on a Hi-Fi to a good TDK D90, then play that. this way, you don't kill the last copy in the universe :mrgreen:

welcome Hail

it's nappies not diapers !

think adult movies are rated 18 (not worth watching) X (again pointless or fake), XX (over 21 not fake but no close ups) XXX ( i was never told those things at school, thought that was for a jobby)

^

my first go only got me 15,572 I prefer the electron tape version...

^ no problem Erik 8) as per my pic, being from above here is new photo showing the numbers, as the ribbon cable hid the numbers 1 & 2 on my older pic pins3.jpg you can also take out the ADFS1.00 rom (as it's buggy as hell, to say the least..) & just put in DFS in it's place, so PAGE is set to &1900 ...

1, pic below: pls3 right.jpg on the header pin1 is on left, and gold finger drive2 connector is pin1 on bottom right, use an old 51/4" PC drive connector for this 2, never seen one either, will make no diff 3, same 4, the 2x drives could run off the plus3 IF you have the black brick PSU, & extend th...

daveejhitchins wrote: ↑

Mon Jun 04, 2018 8:39 pm

With many thanks to ....Elk Towers..

more like DaveE who scanned the original /typed in & put on his AcornWorld DVD
(last pg 31 bottom right)
thought I had seen this manual before

welcome Paul

I had a few of these BITD too :) just a word of warning, copy everything off them quick, as the 'side2' goes backwards to the cotton cloth cleaner inside the 51/4" case, so basically all the crap caught in it then end up coming out when playing other flip side :( i copied all mine to normal, can min...

^ hi TB, any chance you could just post the M128 mother board?
I have a Very naughty one, so don't need case or PSU & I have a working keyboard!

should be a £5.01 post, if you can be bothered to put in a big jiffy bag

let me know, Thanks

beats my Beeb B Issue 3 (sandpaper top/bottom case)
ICL 028236 , so only 28,105 diff
here is how I got mine before I cleaned it up
dated 7th April 1983

just noticed one of my other laptop speed on Speedtest.net over wifi is only 6:1 :roll: put in LAN, and full 37:7 :roll: so they now have knackered the sound card driver on one laptop, & Ralink WiFi driver on the other FFS! :evil: only one today : 2018-05 Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 180...

Just follow the broken tracks (bet only 3), & use small jumper wire to re make the same path.
I've done it on a few electrons & they now work fine!

Probably when they have been is salt water or when a old battery has leaked it's guts.

then the PCB is beyond fixing, unless your want to sit for hours re making tracks with jumper wire....

^nothing to do with R-Break, batterys, as would get a screen but in wrong mode / settings.

try on another Scart TV, or try your lead with a known working elk / beeb

welcome G

weird someone borrowing a £199 elk, then having to move house, hope he now lives in a bedsit!