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Martin A wrote: ↑10 Feb 2023 22:26 I got my original 512 in December '83.

The old bank statement I found shows the cheque cleared on 20/12/83!

And people think I’m odd, keeping bank statements for ten years

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Snow, what’s that? Only joking, although my town has not had any this winter so far, only ten miles away (further inland) it did snow and it settled. It was around 1cm deep in Bristol. And even more fell on the hills and further north such as Gloucestershire area. I have a choice of BT/Openreach or ...

If you were around during the classic analogue CRT TV era, you may be like me and bought a Maplin Electronics SCART video amplifier, then you can have two tellies fed from one SCART signal…

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Martin and Jim, there’s some photos I took of the Centre for Computing History, Cambridge here , including both the normal museum area and the room where there was an ABug meet up. If you’re interested in more information about the ZX Spectrum prototype that the Centre for Computing History was give...

I wonder if these were boards that Jim “liberated” from the factory? If so, perhaps they failed at the factory test stage and maybe never worked? If that is the case, then it’s not surprising that the “Repair Shop” had problems trying to fix them The first board I talked about, is from an MTX that ...

I’m safely home after another adventure in St leonards on Sea :D We identified a read line (/RD shorted to 0V/GND) control fault with on one MTX. But did not manage to locate where on the board the problem lay, other than it’s not any of the chips. The resistance between the /RD line and 0V/GND is a...

The strike action by the RMT is cancelled for this Saturday (tomorrow). However, most train companies say that they don’t have time to arrange to run a normal Saturday service. So if anyone intends to try to travel by train, please do check beforehand which services are actually planned to run. Mark

No 4G mobile coverage?

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The action at weekends is intended to mess up Network Rail’s engineering work schedule.

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