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Hi Schmit.

I jope you got your cassettes transferred. One quick question: what keyboard layouts do your machines have?

Thanks,
Steve

Thanks guys, I have an interest as I have a Danish keyboard layout MTX 500 and in CP/M the keyboard follows the standard UK MTX layout, therefore I was searching for a command that might remap the layout, but I haven't used CP/M since the 80s (when I had to provide occasional IT support to a couple ...

Is it possible to detect the keyboard layout via code? There might be a section in The Source, from the index Chapter 10 might cover it.

Welcome. As a newbie myself, I can tell you that this is a very friendly, helpful and knowledgeable community. Which Ebay did you win the auction on, UK? I periodically keep an eye out on ebay UK and there's been a rash of machines for sale recently. Check Dave's Primrosebank site and fill in the ha...

Thanks Dave, I'll try to remember that!

I've ordered a Pi GPIO ribbon cable - seems to have the same number of pins at the same dot pitch as an IDE cable, just three times the price. Now, that's real progress...

Thanks Martin, that seems to be it.

The only IDE cable I could put my hands on is an old original Xbox cable, which is about a foot long , so I'll need a shorter one, but it works.

Hi all. After three birthdays and some family days out (it's Easter hols here), I have managed to swap out the DC-DC step up converter and it's fixed the issue. I also have a new problem! The MTX won't boot with the keyboard attached. Disconnect it and we are good, with a Ready prompt and flashing c...

Yep. This PSU has been a labour of love (and considerable cost )

Thanks, actually that will teach me for buying cheap. When I was sourcing parts, I was looking for an LM2577 part and came across a XL6009 which seemed to be similarly specified. However, having just done some more in-depth googling, seems the XL6009 is a poorly designed load of junk, that is potent...

From F3 to GND, I get 11.3V DC.

From yellow wire on step up transformer, 11.0V DC.

Step up transformer is dodgy?