18 Jun
2004
18 Jun
'04
5:38 a.m.
In message <E1Bb1Eg-0005dL-00(a)fop.home.net>
"Witchy" <witchy(a)binarydinosaurs.co.uk> wrote:
There's actually 2 machines, the 2nd one has been,
er, 'worked on'. I can't
afford it but already have 2 so I guess that would be greedy :)
I'd love to
get another Ace, simply because I've got the manual, a 16k RAMpak
and the demo tape. I really should get my Ace back and try and repair it. I
think the PSU blew out a few tracks and also popped just about every chip on
the board. The ROM sockets and CPU socket are suspect, too (they're those
lousy metal-leaf sockets that last precisely two chip insert/remove cycles).
Ordinarily, I would have bought that Ace off Ebay, but I'm still trying to
track down a decent logic analyser...
As it happens I'm getting 20 or so cassettes if
Ace software hopefully this
week if the post gets it here, and someone has mailed me saying they've got
the 'remains' of an Ace I can probably have.....not sure what he meant by
'remains' though :-/
Some people have all the luck.
Later.
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