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I’m available for Saturday 25th September. And I’m double jabbed. Having said that, at work, the vast majority of meetings are still via video conferencing. And when an occasional face to face meeting does take place, we all sit two metres apart… But nonetheless, worth thinking about. I’m rather bus...

CFX is effectively a solid state hard disk system.

Mark

Well done on getting your MTX fully working

Nice to see that you are enjoying using it

Mark

If you have a different LCD TV, try that. There is a very wide variation in how well different TVs (even if the same ‘brand’) handle the video signal from a classic home computer.

Also see if there are any menu/settings/controls for switching off and image enhancement or noise reduction.

Mark

Hello Neil and welcome :D Yes, I do recall seeing your Metal Micky avatar on an other 8 bit computer forum 8-) Please do enjoy looking around the forum. Poke us if you need help with anything :D You've come to the right place for all things MTX. Quite a number of the users here are more focused on t...

Hi Matt

Welcome to our wonderful forum

Please do have a look at other topics here, and if you need help, please do shout out.

If I don’t respond in a few days, wake me up!

Mark

So the next Memofest is on Jon then, with pints all round

I’m not sure to say well done or just jibber with shock at those amazing bid amounts that you got there

But I do hope that the bidders do pay up.

Mark

I use a cloth that is slightly wet with a little washing up liquid for nearly all case cleaning, be it plastic or metal. Then use a dry cloth afterwards. To deal with stubborn greasy marks of stickers, I use IPA or a similar solvent cleaner. But if using a solvent cleaner on plastic, test a hidden a...

gunrock wrote: ↑11 May 2021 20:38 Good job it's pristine, Jon. Think of the hit you'd have taken if it had a ROM that had lost a portion of it's legs!

Who would end up leg less, Jon celebrating how rich he then thinks he is before he gets the bad news, or the new owner drowning his/her sorrows...

Mark

Sounds like you’re have fun :D Smaller electro-mechanical relays are faster than larger ones. Beware that the ‘back EMF’ (a voltage spike) generated from the real coil when power is removed from it can damage semiconductor devices that drive it. A fast diode (1N4148 for small relays, UF4001 for larg...