Today I received.....

[gidandridge]

If you have a Datacentre it can be operated via the USB port. I got mine working with a joystick.

They have no feedback, however, and cannot be used for repetitive tasks with accuracy. Fitting small potentiometers to each 'joint' and using the Analogue Port for feedback could produce a fun system.

Thanks - both of those sounds like interesting ideas to try. I have a Datacenter and I think JMS2 (John) sent me a link to post you made about it.

Looks like I'm required on "In-Law" duty this afternoon though.

[LordVaderUK]

A very exciting package from @marcusjambler...

Containing...

You beauty! Very excited

[marcusjambler]

Very glad it arrived in one piece

[Lardo Boffin]

Strictly speaking today Mrs Boffin finished making it rather than it arriving but close enough!

It needs to be slightly bigger but pretty good for a first go! The material is UV resistant.

[cmorley]

A very exciting package from @marcusjambler...

Spare keyswitches for an Elk! Nice

[Lardo Boffin]

Finally have one of these!

It also came with some bonus games and manuals. Sweet.

Time to find my beeb cassette cable and try to load something.

[Leew]

Finally have one of these!

It also came with some bonus games and manuals. Sweet.

Time to find my beeb cassette cable and try to load something.

Well done I think I have about 6 or 7 of those in my collection

I probably have a few duplicate games, the common ones such as Snapper, Hopper, Sphinx etc. I could dig them out and send them to you for price of P&P if you wanted them... Drop me a PM if interested.

[Lardo Boffin]

Thanks very much to Lee, an instant Elk starter collection!

Now to try and find some shelf space.

[LordVaderUK]

A package from Norway...

With my internal Pi Tube for the Master

[CMcDougall]

not recvd, but found, never opened 8" floppy discs, how much would these 10 be worth

[jonb]

About £25 (as of last time I bought some).

[Lardo Boffin]

Although I got the 2600 nearly a year ago I have finally (this lunch time) got a useable picture out of it!!!

The before photo can be seen here:

viewtopic.php?f=11&t=16823&hilit=2600#p234027

And now we have:

The image on the TV looks somewhat better in the flesh than the photo.

It took a combination of recapping and using a ZX81 PSU!

I have a nice modern 9V PSU for the Spectrum that I also use on ZX81s and it works very well (on the Spectrum and ZX81). On this Atari however I end up with bands of white or interference patterns going up the screen.

The after market PSU that came with the Atari is even worse!

The picture is completely stable (so far) and very nice indeed using the original (early 80s) ZX81 PSU. I guess these, or at least this one, don’t like modern switching PSUs?

[egel]

A logic analyser to help to reanimate my Master Compact:

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=18847

[Lardo Boffin]

A bit of reading to keep me going.

[Arcadian]

A nice, new HP Officejet 7740 A3 Printer (w/ scanner).

Bought specifically to enable me to get some homebrew BBC/Electron releases out over the next few months, as I suspect I'm going to be very unbusy!

[1024MAK]

Issued with this when I arrived into work on Thursday...

Hand & surface disinfectant spray

Mark

[DutchAcorn]

An Epson HX-20. I blame this forum for this, I never heard of this device before it was discussed here.

Nifty little machine though. And it seems to work ok!

[1024MAK]

An Epson HX-20. I blame this forum for this, I never heard of this device before it was discussed here.

Before I found this forum the number of ‘retro’ computers that I owned was six... (and before I got a BBC B and Master 128 from a school, it was half that number). Don’t ask how many I have now...

Mark

[daveejhitchins]

Don’t ask how many I have now...

Really silly thing to say . . . How many?

Dave H

[flaxcottage]

Well, not exactly received, more like found ...
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This is on page 10 of the September 1981 edition of Computing Today, which I am presently scanning ready to upload to the Archive. Rather an understated advertisement for such a momentous machine.

I wonder how many people received their BBC micro in October.

[VectorEyes]

Two Amiga A2232 serial cards...

Anyone want to hazard a guess what I'm going to do with them?

[jonb]

This is on page 10 of the September 1981 edition of Computing Today, which I am presently scanning ready to upload to the Archive. Rather an understated advertisement for such a momentous machine.

And I bet it put the wind up Sinclair and the others. Here is an advert talking about a new micro that would have the backing of the BBC and a raft of educational TV programmes. If you were in the market for a micro at that time, you'd be a bit mad to not buy it (apart from the cost of course, which put it out of reach of most people). Did it constitute unfair competition?

[LordVaderUK]

Thank you Flaxcottage for this massive boost to my Acornsoft library! I think I’m gonna need a bigger bookshelf...

[flaxcottage]

I think I’m gonna need a bigger bookshelf...

Quite so. My gain and your loss.

[stephen_usher]

I think a lot of these will be arriving today... ZX Spectrum Next accelerated...

[Leew]

I think a lot of these will be arriving today... ZX Spectrum Next accelerated...

Nice

I would have like one, but I missed the boat on the Kickstarter.

I am a backer of the Atari VCS console though, but don't know when that's likely to arrive.

[stephen_usher]

I think a lot of these will be arriving today... ZX Spectrum Next accelerated...

Nice

I would have like one, but I missed the boat on the Kickstarter.

I am a backer of the Atari VCS console though, but don't know when that's likely to arrive.

Second Kickstarter will hopefully start directly after the last machine ships, which is likely to be next week.

[Lardo Boffin]

I am a backer of the Atari VCS console though, but don't know when that's likely to arrive.

Whats that one?

[Leew]

I am a backer of the Atari VCS console though, but don't know when that's likely to arrive.

Whats that one?

It's a reimagined Atari VCS (2600) games console, made by Atari but isn't retro like the Spectrum Next. It's all modern up to date architecture inside. https://atarivcs.com/

[Lardo Boffin]

I am a backer of the Atari VCS console though, but don't know when that's likely to arrive.

Whats that one?

It's a reimagined Atari VCS (2600) games console, made by Atari but isn't retro like the Spectrum Next. It's all modern up to date architecture inside. https://atarivcs.com/

Interesting looking bit of kit! Just not sure where I will put my Solaris cartridge though.