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I know it's... not very good but someone must want it?

As title.

As photo.

Someone in my class at school in the mid 80s had 8-inch floppy drives rigged up to his; I think he said his dad had obtained them. I can't give any other details except I recall they were in a cabinet of some sort and were huge.

I'm looking forward to playing Aussie Suds when I return shortly from my hols, can anyone confirm please how many parts there were to it and how many parts have actually been archived ? I'm struggling to check myself on this crappy old iphone. Just one part on the Electron User tape, as far as I'm ...

Here's a quick snap of the one inside my model B.

Looking to the positive, it wasn't that long ago that he was officially pardoned. So the timescale from being exonerated to being honoured on a banknote is quite astonishing, refreshing and welcome.

A few months ago I was given two box files stuffed with BBC listings cut out from various multi-format magazines - Popular Computing Weekly , Your Computer etc. Attached is a catalogue of these and I will scan any listings that anyone would like to see. Where the issue or page number is unknown, it ...

Yes, I'll gladly ship to France and I'll send you a price in a private message soon.
Obviously I can't guarantee:

a) they will work
b) they are actually for the DECmate/Rainbow just because that it what it says on the labels!

I was given these as BBC floppies, however they are labelled as formatted for the DEC Rainbow 100 / DECmate / DECmate II. There are 13 in total (10 in sleeves) in a grubby hard box. Obviously it'd be great if they went to someone who could verify there's nothing of use on them that's of importance t...

Thanks ever so much for your time and trouble. PM sent.

All I can say is "thank you very much" for your efforts and "there's no way I could have done all this!"

UFO by P Vernon. Published in Popular Computing Weekly, 23 September 1982, page 19. This magazine clipping only survived because it has a BBC listing on the reverse side! A higher resolution scan could be provided.

Thanks to his innate kindness (and I strongly suspect my ineptitude ) Kazzie has kindly offered to look at this drive for me.
Thank you to everyone that has given me advice on this.

Thanks MartinB and Kazzie. The keyboard links are all absent, and again I've learnt something new so thanks for that.

Here it is removed from the casing.

Just when I thought I'd imagined it, I found it. It was published in Popular Computing Weekly, 24 June 1982, p 16. It's erm...
...attached.

Lee, I wondered the same.

Somewhere in those boxes of clippings I'm cataloguing/scanning there's a submission by an Ian Bell. Not necessarily that Ian Bell of course.

Thanks guys. I'll see about getting the drive out of the casing soon.

My ICL issue 3 A->B 003353.

Hi, and sorry for the delay - I think I know what I'm doing now! I've redone everything reported so far and am fairly confident I've done it correctly. [-o< The only recorded continuity is on pin 28 of MB8843. I did test each pin of every 74**. The attached (not too great) photo hopefully shows the ...

Popular Computing Weekly as per the picture as opposed to Personal Computer World as per the text?
The article about Sunbury on Thames Computer Club? If so, I don't have it to scan, but it's online here:
https://archive.org/details/popular-com ... 03/page/n5

Kazzie, thanks again. I'll double check everything so far and reply again when I'm 100% certain I know what I'm doing!

Hi Mark, and thanks.
The multimeter is a generic type, model G-44 but I think that's pretty meaningless. I've attached two photos.

From my recently acquired Issue 3. It has a Torch label, but is definitely an Acorn DFS. Missing from mdfs.net and everywhere else as far as I know.

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Q1: Are my ROM assumptions correct from the photo? I do miss the *ROMS command!

Correct, though I would like to see a dump of the DFS 0.9H.

As soon as I'm in a position to do so, I promise to do this.

ROM dumped. Will post in Archive Submissions.

Hi again. So... I am a #-o This multimeter doesn't have a dedicated continuity mode so I've been using the resistance mode. This has a variable selector dial and I've had no idea what to set it to. The results vary - at the higher levels everything seemed to have a connection and at the lower, none ...

Thanks for the reply. I seem to be getting a reading on every pin of the TD63503P from the bottom output pin of HS with the multimeter in resistance mode. If this makes absolutely no sense, then the explanation is my poor eyesight and unsteady hand and I'll get my son to look at it with me tonight a...

But I bet it's Dragon Adventure by William Stott, which I've never played but it ticks all the boxes: there's a dragon in the title, BLOW HORN is in the solution and it's for children. Unfortunately it's missing from the archive and the screenshot on CASA is the Archimedes version.

You have to blow a horn in Level 9's Saga of Erik the Viking and there's also a dragon in it.

Thanks for your time and patience. This multimeter has crocodile clips and even though they're quite small it was impossible to touch the pins in isolation. Once I'd put pins in the clips it was slightly easier but still not a doddle! However, here are the (hopefully accurate and meaningful) results...