30 Nov
2006
30 Nov
'06
11:32 a.m.
On Thu, November 30, 2006 11:47, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
Then, of course, the unheeded technical manual turned
up. I had a quick
look, and right in the first few pages it mentions removing the
regulators and bypassing them and then putting a *BIG* label on the back
saying that it's for 5v now, not 9v...
My first Atom was missing that *BIG* label, but since it's working state
was unknown and I didn't have a PSU for it (or a bench one) I took it to
the bloke that helped create it - Nick Toop still lives and works in
Cambridge. We discovered a big switch underneath the keyboard that shorted
out the regulators so it could be run at either 5v or 9v.....it was set
for 5v so if I HAD powered it up with an Atom supply I'd probably have
toasted some of it.
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adrian/witchy
Binary Dinosaurs creator/curator
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