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I bought the book after it got mentioned on the speccy forum. The book got reprinted just this year, well worth a read actually. It's weird in that it's very entertaining, breezy, lightly written book, with weird stuff as part of it. It's not like a ZOMG super natural book, with serious over tones. ...

Someone could do an internets boat like the old radio stations

Hopefully, it won't make running hobbyist sites into more trouble than it's worth, and then end up driving more people on horrible places like facecrook.

Quite, a lot of what I have read, talks in terms of employees and numbers of employees etc, but very little if actually done as a hobby for free.

Does it have a hatch for coal?

Maybe he meant smoking jacket?

You can clean it with a cotton bud and distilled water. I have a load to clean I keep putting off

In the past I just scan them, and save them as PNGs, at the default size (usually huge, a bigger resolution that the page), and keep those as your base scans. Then you can just tinker about with a copied set for PDFs, OCR etc.

I think they are cutting mats?

The book Racing the Beam is well worth a read

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racing_the_Beam

Just the right amount of technical, entertainment and story.

*wave hot soldering iron about arl ower* Made a big list of caps, took loads of photos and started de-soldering. Sadly some of the caps had leaked badly, and damaged some of the solder pads. Two caps dropped off when touched, and the pads had been eaten away. I might have to run wires or something. ...

Cheers, I was hoping to do just by visual inspection. I'll start off by listing all the caps with pcb number on the board, then go from there. I have lots of caps left over from when I did the x68000, so I'm hoping they will be suitable

I got some tweezers for my Hakko

You do get some info on them, on the photo, it's the silver and black topped thingys, so C201 on the board is 100 6A 18A.

I've successfully replaced the all the can shaped(?) type Capacitors on a Sharp X68000, but I'm moving onto my next project. A PC Engine Duo which uses a lot of SMD capacitors, how do you read the values on these? I'll be replacing them with normal can types. http://www.zen70509.zen.co.uk/duo/DSC_06...

Will it get to the point where people can ring your house with modems and connect like the old days?

I downloaded a terminal program for the speccy via viewdata. You had to watch it in real time, it would slowly fill the screen up with "junk" per page, and keep going so like page 1/15 then 2/15 etc Once it got to the end, you were prompted to save it to tape. I can't remember much about that bit. I...

I think I would of been on it, mid 90s, I still have the letters somewhere. It had kind of been left alone even then. You wrote and got a demo time limited account, and were meant to pay a sub once it ran out, but the demo account just kept going.

Some years ago, I used a viewdata service called silicon village. I had email via my speccy, and would email my pc owning friends, much to their amusement.

lazarusr wrote:and I have the power to sentence people to very long prison terms.

Do the other ones also have this? It never seems to be used these days

The B+ seems to be the forgotten Beeb.

I agree! I had an old ibook G4, that recently I dug out to remove the SSD IDE drive to use in something else, already the plastics had degraded, and were brittle/broken in places. They are rubbish inside, not to mention the use of glue arl ower.

A Pi 3B+ :D ... that doesn't seem work with the official PSU :( ... so investigating that. No amazing projects planned, just like seeing what the wee beasties can do. When I can get them to power up, of course! :roll: I read somewhere that the new one draws more power, and needs a beefier PSU :)

Everyone should have paid attention to my Hakko url link, that explains lead pipes too! Hikaru What?! That is terribly dangerous, isn't it? Mr.Yokoo No, it is not always dangerous. When lead is combined with carbonic acid and oxygen dissolved in water, a film of lead compound (2PbCO3・Pb(OH)2) is dep...

Prime wrote:Well just been to Coventry maplin and spent nearly £100 Closing down sale discounts of up to 50%......

Did you buy two HDMI leads?

Do you have all the cables? It should have an av connector between the two, then the final output.

http://www.hakko.com/english/hikaru/pages/story8.html

It's all explained there in the adventures of Hikaru. Mr Yokoo knows his stuff!

Pleased I've got a good few rolls in storage. I never got on with the lead free

The design still looks great now. Awesome little machine.

Will you be building a big enclosed cabin with lots of gauges?