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If you can, try the output on another, different make of TV. Then maybe you can determine where the problem lies.

On a B+ I have the RGB socket had a dry joint. That produced many amazing effects including what you showed.

The more modern rechargeable batteries will be OK if they are kept charged. This means that the machine will need to be powered on at least once a month. It is when the cells become completely discharged that trouble occurs - that happens when machines are put in storage for 25 years or so.

Welcome, Allan. Nothing beats the feel of a real Beeb.

Welcome to 2019 StarDot, Luke.

A Datacentre and a Master are a marriage made in heaven - up to 2GB HDD storage, DFS, ADFS, SWR and PAGE stays at &E00!!

Welcome, Andy.

Good luck with the A3010 upgrading. It is a great machine once it has a hard drive.

Welcome. That A3020 is a great machine.

Try this ...

Yes, but that was the Master one complete with manual. Same software, same cartridge, different box.

Not being a games player, I haven't played LISP. Who has the high score?

Welcome.

Glad everything is OK in Corfu. Hope the quality of life is what you expect and would like.

Very interesting. I've never really seen one of these working let alone used one. They look rather Heath-Robinson and that is cool.

Welcome.

Dyslexic figners is one of my problems.

Welcome, Dangelus.

Should the CF/SD Cards be of a fixed capacity, or can I use any card? The maximum capacity should be 2Gb. You will only be able to format one 500Mb HDD equivalent unless you have something like a Whizzo ROM available, which you would have to load from floppy disk in an A3010 before you could access...

Have you tried it?

I would do just that.

Welcome.

Emulators are good but nothing beats the warm smell of vintage electronics and the whir of a disc drive.

paper-rolls.jpg A clutch of thermal paper printer rolls for my Texas PC100C printer cradle. The printer works with my TI-58 and TI-59 calculators. This printer uses paper 63mm wide, which is now obsolete. New old stock paper does appear from time to time but is horrendously expensive. These are 60m...

Thanks for that. It is hard to determine exactly what is there just from the names on the listing but there could be lots of MIA stuff. The entries entitled Derbys and Notts intrigue me since I worked for those authorities in the past and wrote a lot of software for them.

Ha ha ha!

I have one BBC Master with a screwed together case. That is the one I take to shows for Joe Public to use; it has an internal network interface so everything comes through Econet. It just makes the machine more robust.

Very nice.

It would be interesting to see what is inside the Education folder.

If I can get the demo set up in time I'll also bring a Plotmate A4 set up and LOGO. Wonder if anyone will use it to draw a giant willy :) I was kinda surpprised no one did that when we where playing with turtles a couple of years back :) Cheers. Phill. The new ROM routines contain extensive error c...

Got home today and a board was waiting for me. Thanks, Dominic.

bbcmicro.co.uk is a great site. Well done, sir!

Have a good rest, you've deserved it.

Thanks, Chris.

Value for money is very subjective! That is so true. Considering the MMC-type interfaces I have 3 different types, the turboMMC, a Retroclinic SPI microSD interface and a FlaxCottage special. All work very well but the turboMMC version is a 'more complete' system as it allows easy copying from flop...

Interesting. What is this 'purple board' then. Pray do tell.

Generally the 'modern' retro kit I buy has been good value for money and very, very useful. I've had loads of your gear (as you know), stuff from Retroclinic, stuff from IFEL, stuff from Retro-Kit, stuff from Retro-Hardware, etc. All of the gear has been good. Whenever I have had any problems an ema...

That looks to be very handy.