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Hmm, I installed the final 26bit release from 4corn on my a5000 via a gotek and that worked fine... Mind you, that version is OK on a riscpc too...

Arc would have been leaded. CPC sell multicore 60-40 still, that's what I've found to be the best? I have a US brand too which doesn't wet as well... I use no-clean liquid flux from CPC too:https://cpc.farnell.com/warton/315-0-5l-bottle/315-noclean-flux-1-2-litre/dp/SD00085 This is all for surface m...

Actually, that reminds me, I nobbled a master which had just been retired from use when I was doing teacher training in 1998!

Used all the way up until I left in 1992 at my old school. Finally bought it in 1994 iirc when the entire network got taken out by a thunderstorm. All replaced with PCs at that point...

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If you've got a Master, you've no need for a compact

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The forum is basically defunct and no longer used. It should probably be removed?

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6522s are generally awful in anything

The one with the messed up screen, try holding the cmos reset when you turn it on (R).

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Hello, welcome to the forum.

If no one's got one knocking about, I'd be fairly confident that CJE will:
http://www.cjemicros.co.uk/micros/indiv ... ARM3A3K-SH

You'd have to have a conversation with them though to see which varieties they actually have?

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Does it work? If so, I'd just leave it. The only real way to repair gold plating is to re-plate it electrolytically. Some of the solutions to do that aren't particularly nice (you'd need to wear a respirator), but all the gear is certainly going to cost more than £50...

Crumbs, don't skip it - where are you? Is it a 1451 or 1431?

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Sniffer wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 18, 2018 12:13 pm

You can ask for PMs to be enabled by using the Contact us link at the bottom of every page.

Yep, did that a week ago but nothing back yet.

Done

I'm assuming not ebay auction

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Is the care cartridge wired up properly for R/W on the elk? I have it in my head it might not be...

Filesharing is best done with !FTPc: http://www.ftpc.iconbar.com/ You can also fileshare using sharefs to a raspberry pi. It might even work to an emulated riscpc on a windows/macos machine but I've not tried it! There's also omniclient and lanmanfs but I think those cost ££s You set the filetype by...

Fungus merrily grows on floppy discs, there's enough moisture in the air. Food-source-wise they use all sorts of things - organic compounds in some plastics would certainly fuel them... Some even consume plastics, as you say! Conditions don't have to be anything special, just right for whatever it i...

Either something that's leeched out of the plastic, or, I seem to remember someone took a closeup of it and it looked a bit fungus-like...

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Check ebay sold prices and decide what you'd take for it?

They've gone anywhere from £30 to £70. e.g. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Acorn-Electr ... 2160796722

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I've got a plan to build a non-destructive scanner (Basically a mounted digital camera, and good lighting), but as ever time is the thing... In theory archive.org have a network of these things around, but I can't locate any near me. There's certainly a service in London? https://archive.org/scannin...

They should appear instantly. Even if you can't send PMs you can receive them. I've enabled send on your account.

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Ian Karley wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 10, 2018 1:05 pm

As a new user of this forum I can't contact Paul Emerton directly, if someone would mind dropping him a message I would be most appreciative.

I've activated PMs for you

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CPM Filer:
http://mdfs.net/Software/CPM/Filer/CPMFiler.txt

http://mdfs.net/Software/CPM/Filer/

That should do the trick if you've got a double drive?

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No idea

I've successfully done this using the CF-IDE adaptors that hold two cards. There is a master-slave jumper on them usually. I've not tried it with two separate CF-IDE adaptors.

There is a direct access mode that gives you direct access to the sd card blocks, but you'll need to implement a FAT library on the host. Then there's the "choose an indexed image", which is what this really is. There's nothing to stop you implementing something to give direct accessas you describe ...

Personally, I have never used anything other than UPURS with real floppies and I’m a proactive developer but for some, once they have a solid-state storage system, they don’t perceive any tangible benefits from UPURS - fools :x :lol: I quite like the feel of an UPURS cable despite having multiple s...

Just to note, if you can find the 4.02 ROMs (might be easier) you can softload 4.39 over the top very easily.

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Whilst I had the Plus 3 in pieces I also tried one of my Beeb 3.5" FDD's by just connecting it's ribbon cable to the FDD pins on the Plus 3 board. This worked a treat. The external Beeb drive looks to be the same type as the Plus 3 drive, except it's double sided. I am thinking of whipping it out o...

50 means it couldn't find the track/sector/side - either the heads are dirty, or more likely its the HD disk.

Previously formatted on a pc can cause problems, and using an HD disk definitely can cause problems. The coercivity (ie level of energy needed to cause a flux reversal) is higher for HD media, and standard density drives don't push out enough to record a reliable signal. In this instance it could we...

If nothing at allon the gbs8200, it could only be ic14 the 74LS86 that the sync signal goes through? Composite working proves the rgb is fine.

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