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Welcome, Chris.

I second that - from experience. I have an old Farnell 0-30v, 0-2A variable PSU which is similar to the Thandar one.

Good enough for a Beeb then?

Ah but the cheap one has no leads or PSU. They must be expensive!

Not at the moment - just a BASIC program.

I'd like to get it working with LOGO but that would need a ROM.

Not exactly software this but I have found a cheapish way to fit a pen to the plotter. The original pens, type 1CY14P5-N, for black, are very expensive and, as far as I can tell, are only available from a single company worldwide. The pens have to be made to order, which means expense and a long lea...

This sounds excellent - I think.

BITD I thought I understood electronics but now everyone talks way above my head.

The mags might be online but there is no substitute for holding a paper copy in ones hand, I feel.

Welcome, Robin.

Welcome.

Thanks for the A3 image links guys.

Unfortunately the A3 one will not drive the A4 plotter properly.

My A3000 connects to my AKF30 monitor through a 9-pin to 15-pin VGA adapter. Then an old, 90s retro VGA cable completes the setup. Modern VGA cables will not work.

Having just taken delivery of a working Liner Graphics PlotMate A4 plotter I am keen to get it working properly. BITD when I had one of these it came with a system disk and an optional ROM. Both of these I need. I have hundreds of ROMs and ROM images but no PlotMate. There is a website http://www.cr...

Managed to get my hands on a Plotmate A4 plotter. Yippee! I have always wanted one of these. Plotmate A4.jpg I have tested it without a pen attached and it appears to be fully working. I do love that warm, musty, old electronics smell. :D Now the challenge will be to source a suitable pen. I know BI...

I've had problems with Eneloop batteries. They show very high self-discharge at times. I'd check them first. If the CMOS still fails to hold its settings are the correct voltages being applied to the chip when the A3010 is off. I've also noticed that Axxxx machines need to be powered on for at least...

Also..just to let you know I booked my room at the nearby Travelodge (address in first post) - currently £100 for 2 nights sans breakfast. Which is fine by me as the breakfast there isn't good..but clean functional rooms and 10 mins walk to the museum. Now he tells us. I just booked breakfast! :? :...

Crash, Cargo, Compose, LOGO and Yacht Race are good pieces of educational software to grab the attention and interest of primary children. Then there are the Sherston problem solving adventures such as Animal Rescue, Microbugs, Nature Park Adventure and the Story Starts. Older primary children love ...

Welcome, James.

Right, that's me sorted.

Staying at the Travel Lodge. Only half a mile away, well within staggering distance.

Will be there Friday pm until Sunday pm. See everyone in September.

Welcome.

You need to get a BBC.

Can I confirm my visit from tentative to definite. I'll be there Saturday and Sunday definite and probably Friday too.

Hi all I have had another go at getting Beebug C working on modern hardware attached to my Master so that it doesn’t take forever to compile from floppy. Sadly I still can’t get it to work on anything other than an actual floppy drive. I have tried Turbo MMC, a Datacenter and its attached ADFS hdd....

Sounds like a good event. Maybe I'll stay down there at one of those newfangled hotels people keep talking about.

It will be a great opportunity to archive some MIA educational stuff.

Welcome, Paul.

The PET was a great machine BITD especially coupled with a dual floppy drive and printer.

Quite a collection here: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Acorn-comput ... Swx95bE8kq

A bit on the pricey side but the vendor is open to offers.

If you have two IDE interfaces in the RISC-PC then it is easy. Connect a CF-card adapter into the second IDE channel with a 2Gb CF-card. Format the card using the appropriate HForm program. Attach your IDE drive and copy across. Repeat this process using as many CF cards as you need with the SCSI dr...

CommunITel Viewdata At last I have got round to scanning the very large Reference Manual for this package. It was over 200 pages. The pdf document of the reference manual is too big at around 20Mb to upload as a single document. I have split it into 5 separate files using a file-splitting utility. ...

Nice machine. An issue 2 is the one I am missing from my collection.

Looks like a great meet, guys. Stuff everywhere and people having a jolly good natter.

Me, I'm marking purple sacks full of exam papers.

Looking forward to the next meet when I hope to be there.

sbadger wrote: ↑

Fri Jun 01, 2018 7:12 am

Have a great weekend everybody. I'm there in spirit and I look forward to the pics in this thread later!

Ditto.