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Mandatory health warning: The input reservoir capacitors on a switch mode PSU will have high voltage DC (>300v) present which may persist for some time after the equipment is disconnected from the mains supply. It may be possible to modify the existing PSU. It may have provision for a link on the PC...

Is there any chance that the ROM labelled "BASIC" is actually the OS+BASIC ROM?

It wouldn't do any harm to move the BASIC ROM to the OS socket and see if it boots, and if it doesn't come up in BASIC see whether *BASIC works or not.

The A3000 has a weird non-standard DSR/DTR handshaking arrangement so I imagine the A3010 is the same... I worked it out with some help from serial wiring diagrams on the internet (A30x0<>PC) but don't remember what you need to connect to what. I sold my A3000 too so didn't bother to commit it to m...

I keep having reliability issues with my Beeb. Mostly it manifests itself as a reluctance to start up the first time every day. Once it is up it is stable for hours on end. I am reasonably convinced the problem is loose / sloppy ROM sockets, since pressing down on the ROM tends to fix things. I sho...

If you want some spade terminals for your beeb, PM me. I bought a sack load a while back. Bear in mind they are 'fun' to fit. Well, the 'fun' has been had! Thank you very much, @Colday - really appreciate it. Given the hard life this board has had I'm amazed (but happy) to say it has survived surge...

You can get them from Farnell's. Likely cheaper than eBay, And their delivery is superb. https://uk.farnell.com/murata/rder71h333k0m1h03a/cap-0-033uf-50v-mlcc-radial/dp/2990806?st=33nf Based on my experience over 30+ years - RS wins hands down for delivery. RS - next day ~99% - - Farnell next day ~...

And what this is, there are lots all over the board, marked A, this one has broken off . Decoupling capacitors - they are wired between 5V and ground, and (put simply) provide a local reservoir of energy when the IC nearby temporarily pulls more current from the 5V line. If these capacitors weren't...

Nice pizza box Stephen! They do come up occasionally for reasonable prices. I scored an IPX with keyboard and Sun monitor for postage as the owner was moving house and wanted rid. It's ex Bath Uni Maths department. Just needed a battery hack for the NVROM and it's a good 'un. I was given an UltraSp...

[*]the monitor socket looks like nothing I've ever seen before - certainly a cross between DVI and something else). A 13W3 ? Popular on Sun and SGI back in the day https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DB13W3 Note: Sun and SGI DB13W3 to VGA adaptors are not compatible with each other, despite having identi...

That could explain why it doesn't work at all in any beeb.... So I need to write the test ROM code to 0xC000 instead of 0x4000? Ok, I'll give that a go next. I do not think this is going to make any difference with the dishwasher beeb. But we shall see. My personal rule is to program N images into ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_earpiece My tool of choice when trying to trace where a low level audio signal has disappeared. Use the tip of the 3.5mm plug as a probe, the thing is so sensitive, you don't need to provide a return path. Play a signal (an audio cassette will do) into the casse...

Test with the power switched off using the 200 ohm range on your multimeter. You are looking for a resistance of less than 1 ohm. Always test with a ROM chip fitted in the sockets and test the very top of the IC leg/pin. Pinging off at a tangent (as is my wont)... I'm a bit paranoid about using the...

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After that, I was able to remove the pins and clear the holes individually, by standing the board vertically, applying the soldering iron to the underside and pulling the pin out with pliers from the top side. That was much easier than trying to get all 28 holes clear before moving the socket. My t...

I believe the Acorn data lives here in the Electron MOS ROM: \ Electron Acorn bitmap for Ctrl-Break \ ------------------------------------ .LC42B EQUB &18:EQUB &3C:EQUB &3C:EQUB &7E EQUB &7E:EQUB &00:EQUB &7E:EQUB &3C \ ...**... \ ..****.. \ ..****.. \ .******. \ .******. \ ........ \ .******. \ .....

OK. Thanks. Since my last post, I've run the following test program: 10 CLS 20 *MOTOR 1 30 PRINT "ON" 40 FOR N=1 TO 5000: NEXT N 50 *MOTOR 0 60 PRINT "OFF" 70 FOR N=1 TO 5000: NEXT N 80 GOTO 20 On running the program, I can confirm there is NO motor light OR sound ('click'). I've now ordered replac...

No collision detection I note.
The circuit between the 68B54 and the Econet socket is more or less a direct lift from the original ("issue 1") Master Econet module.

Watch out for the 4.7uF 50V bipolar electrolytic! These seem to be NLA. I've chucked a poly film cap on my order to try in place of it. You can make a bipolar electrolytic from two "normal" electrolytics wired in series, wired "like to like". Remember that two identical capacitors in series gives y...

Possibly an adaptor to put two 2764's into a single 27128 socket. What would be the reason to do this? Probably one of * The mask programmed ROM 's won't be along for a few weeks. * "We have to ship 1.00 now, and then replace with the 1.20 ROM when it's finished." and/or one of the following * 2764...

Colday wrote: ↑

Sat May 16, 2020 9:14 am

Or this...

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The part number (203,011) looks like a Acorn product.
Possibly an adaptor to put two 2764's into a single 27128 socket.
(i.e. "top half" in one socket and "bottom half" in the other)

I presume this is some sort of disc controller8DC2E9E6-DE8C-4830-9493-C9E9DBA68AB7.jpeg The "8272" marking on the board seems to tally with a double density controller. So if this an 8272 why does the chip have what looks like a covered window as one might expect on an EPROM? Is the 8272 actually a...

I presume this is some sort of disc controller8DC2E9E6-DE8C-4830-9493-C9E9DBA68AB7.jpeg Microware DDFS? Looks like the item pictured on page 9 of Beebug Jan/Feb 1984 available at http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/downloads/14544 The "8272" marking on the board seems to tally with a double density ...

If you want the soft keys cleared before chaining the program, your !BOOT file becomes *BASIC *K.0*FX18|MCH."MYPROG"|M *FX138,0,128 I thought I'd tried that some time ago and I vaguely recalled that it didn't work. I just tried it again now in BeebEm and I can confirm that it doesn't seem to work: ...

*BASIC *K.0CH."MYPROG"|M *FX138,0,128 Rather than running the chain command from "inside" the EXEC loop, define a function key, and then insert it into the buffer for execution after the EXEC loop has ended. Thanks, that's a neat trick! @AJW, sorry for hijacking this thread, but if I may just add t...

I've seen something along the lines of

*BASIC
*K.0CH."MYPROG"|M
*FX138,0,128

Rather than running the chain command from "inside" the EXEC loop, define a function key, and then insert it into the buffer for execution after the EXEC loop has ended.

Perhaps the iss7 boards used a single rail PSU - a single 7805 with PNP power transistor to give a single 5V 3A power rail with multiple outputs to avoid high currents via the PCB traces.

A common fix for SMPS noise is to clean the SMPS output by feeding it into a linear PSU. For example, for a device expecting 12v regulated, feed 19v from a laptop PSU into a 7812 regulator+heatsink. Note that the laptop PSU will already have sufficient output capacitors to strip low frequency ripple...

Does anyone know of a cable which goes from a 6 pin DIN to three phono connectors (see photo of an Atari compatible cable) for connecting to the rgb input of a TV? Have searched but can’t find one, which says to me that it can’t be done...? F8136A66-B6D3-4982-8EE8-95859151E026.jpeg If you want to u...

If the computer is freezing then that indicates something on the "digital side" of the sound generator First port of call is the system VIA Then working your way from the CPU towards the speaker IC3 System VIA IC32 74LS259 IC99 (Speech processor - if installed, extract it to test) 76489 IC17 LM324 I...

Two "cheapo" suggestions: 1) Keep the original adaptor, and glue on a modified "socket protector"/"plug socket cover" (like: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51Yob6yTRDL._AC_SX466_.jpg ) Find one that has an earth pin long enough to open the shutters, then do some trimming. The aim o...