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Hello! Welcome to the forum! You still need to kill off any hydroxide left there or it'll continue eating away at stuff. Just use the vinegar neat :) - no need to dilute. If you're not in a soft water area, do use deionised or distilled water to rinse the board off after the vinegar. Once you've got...

Don't worry
Paul is indeed PaulV and MartinB is MartinB. MartinB may or may not be real, but evidence strongly suggests he is, even without his data having been hoarded by a multinational advertising corporation.

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Who are you again?

OK, if I forget give me a nudge.

Yes, but not sure when I'll get a chance! Will probably end up near a timpsons at some point this week

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And Napalm.

I'm about to reverse engineer a Victor 9000 hard disk DMA board, it's rare as hen's teeth so whilst I might use braid for cleaning holes out, I'm going to use the right tool for the job on this one!

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Or you can just load it into kicad and take the measurements from there. It'll probably be quicker than waiting for me to get around to it.

PCB dimensions were:
width : 40.69 mm
height : 53.39 mm

Not in a position to measure anything else at the mo (that's from the order, I'm at work) - the height will entirely depend on the size of pin headers you decide to use.

A hoojamaflip:
http://cpc.farnell.com/duratool/d00672/ ... dp/SD01384

Pretty bloody brilliant frankly...

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Because it's actually better, Colin

With the MRB, in turbo mode, it uses OS3.0 rather than 1.2.

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I can give this a shot (also have an original MRB) - but it might be a bit before I get things rearranged to test!
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Nope.

Finished version:

I'm really not getting into building them for sale I'm afraid Of course, anyone is free to make them or people could club together and buy the bits to make it a bit cheaper? I just don't really want to get caught up building loads of these and then having to support/repair etc...

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I can confirm that version 2.5 of the board (as is currently in the repository) works perfectly. I've got a version of the zimodem firmware (more fully featured, but still needs a bit of tweaking) in my github that I've set up to work with this hardware, or the firmware in the esp8266 stardot repo c...

Electron is either ULA or Memory (they don't have a 6522 in them unless you've plugged one in on a cartridge or something) - and as Duncan says, the keys are just dirty keyswitches.

If you swap the ULAs and it still white-screens, it's most likely to be one of the 4164 DRAMs.

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Welcome Chris - 2001 is pretty late to still have a beeb in the classroom! Econet should be within your grasp, and you'll certainly have help getting the other machines up-and-running here

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How are you formatting the USB stick? It does seem most likely its something on your end rather than the gotek?

Web browsing on old riscos machines, even when you manage to get it going, is a rather unsatisfactory, if not painful, experience. The browsers are so far out of date, only the most very basic Web pages work. A recent version of lynx compiled for riscos might be nice :) not sure of the logistics of ...

1024MAK wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 06, 2018 8:13 am

@Daniel - time to add spoiler tags?
Don't know if you can hide pictures in a spoiler though.

Mark

Attachments always show up. It's probably best to leave graphically medical imagery to medical fora. Scans/x-rays are abstract enough to not be particularly graphic.

Good to see you back. I'm tempted to change my avatar as well. Before: (throat - ick) After: (throat - ouch) Oh gosh, poor you :( - I hope you're well on the road to recovery. That's 3 people I know now how've had this over the last 3 years, and the treatment is quite brutal. I've deleted the pictu...

I do likewise but I think this is the right housing: https://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/compact- ... s/6794732/

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I did, but it was going to take substantially more time than I had to try and get my head around what was going on -> I started having the same feeling as when I tried to understand how to build something with maven. The entire container paradigm is rather alien to me!

Welcome to the forum!

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Well done! I don't think DHCP works on 3.7, so don't worry too much. Sounds like you're pretty much all set

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I confess, I've looked at docker very briefly and it was opaque enough that I went off to do something else. I admit, I only had a look at the website for a couple of minutes but I couldn't tell if it was free, to pay for, how to go about installing it, what I needed to run an application wrapped up...

Jeff_HxC2001 wrote: ↑

Fri Aug 03, 2018 8:23 am

Have a closer look to the documentation. FAT library is not a must to select another image from the host machine, at least with the HxC firmwares.

Yes, you're right - I had my head firmly in direct file access.

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Use png - not sure if bmp will display in browser...