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They tried to get an estimate for the roof repair, but the figures didn't add up.

BeebMaster wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 06, 2020 10:06 pm

Crumbs...last time I was there, it was raining in over the antique calculators.

I was waiting for the punchline there

That wouldn't account for the joystick ports. They're only present on the A3010. That's a 3010 with the keyboard and top lid from a 3020. Seems like someone combined two machines to make one working one. It's a a3010 with what would of had a german keyboard, not an a3020 :lol: I found where I read ...

I'm sure I read that these were late models intended for the German market, then bought here and the keyboard swapped ower?

That's the one! I do like a bit of Minder, class show.

On Minder this morning, Ray had a three box Archimedes on his desk in Arthur's lock up. It was the Arthur is retiring episode. He put a cup of tea on the monitor, much to Ray's disgust

Yes, the hoss bolted years ago, the stable has been long demolished, and the hoss died years ago anarl.

I love my A3010, owned it since I was a kid. It started out with 2mb and ended up with 4mb and a hccs mini ide podule. Only thing I missed out on was a turbo ram I even had a parallel cd rom drive, although the fuse used to trip in it.

Needs proper racking for vertical storage, so much wasted

I have some proper infocom games for the Tatung and they do hammer the disc drive a lot. I was surprised at first!

Yes the search goes on, I dumped a load of rare stuff recently. I think it’s filtering through. I’ll be buying a setup on payday! Are they cheaper outside of ebay?

The two machines using different drives is a pain I had when trying to get some working drives. I was looking at your replacement system for the 256, is it easy to use and fit? Do you just dump the files on or does it require more tweaking than that?

Hoo Colin!

Those Bull Electrical ads used to awesome!

I wanted to keep to multiples of 24MHz. I would guess that if a 48MHz crystal was 9.64 Mips then a 50MHz one would pretty well hit it. (Doing the calculation, it should be a 49.793MHz oscillator, but they don't exist.) I like the idea of a mild overclock, I loved my A3010 when I was a teen, althoug...

What about for just over 10 mips?

An old post by someone on the iconbar stated "Right, here we go. The 'Turbo RAM' upgrade was a 4MB upgrade that used some stupidly-fast 40-50ns 4Mbit FPM memory (8x 1Mx4). Usually, upgrades at the time used 70/80ns. The upgrade also replaced the memory system clock of the ARM250 to clock the memory...

I know I've asked this before, but what differences did the Simtek Turbo ram have? I'm guessing it was user fit, and didn't needed soldered oscillators to be replaced? Would it be possible to re manufacture the turbo ram?

Double the MIPS does seem a like a fierce overclock. I hope you boys won't ride the tail off these old A3010s.

What would be a nice overclock of say around 10 to 11 mips?

Grumble!

Can I haz one?

Hi all, Wanted a bbc as a kid. What I actually had was a Vic 20. I loved it and learnt to code using it. But, was always jealous of my friends with BBCs, and even the Electron. Anyway, I have a couple of amigas and a nice C64 but the need to have a beeb hasn’t gone away, so here I am. Ready to do s...

Is it overclocked?

manov wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 25, 2020 9:07 pm

Hi,

I'm posting this a bit late but you might be monitoring this...

I worked at Tandata in the 80s and used to write the firmware to the Tandata TDxxxx viewdata terminals so can give you some information about the serial interface and other things too...

I have a Tandata QL Modem stack!

I didn't understand any of it, I thought he had been haxxored

With that cable, I use a molex power adapter, I use the same one on my Amstrad 6128. I'm trying to remember the brand name, it was a decent quality one for around £30.

Yes, that's the cable I got, it works well enough for the moment. Hoping to get a proper rgb/scart one at some point.

Please visit us at the Tatung forum!

https://www.robheaton.co.uk/tatung/

Fingers crossed!

Floppy drive arrived, £10 donation made to BHF. Thank you to Mel_P for donating the goodies, and Markjw for sorting it out