22 Jul
2016
22 Jul
'16
12:36 p.m.
On 22/07/2016 10:04, "Pete Turnbull" <pete at dunnington.plus.com> wrote:
On 22/07/2016 00:33, Adrian Graham wrote:
I remember why I've never fired them up, this is the label on the one with
the Beeb connecting podule:
http://binarydinosaurs.co.uk/acorna500label.jpg
Of course 'smoke' in these PSUs just means the mains cap has blown but I'm
not sure about the fizzing.
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Adrian/Witchy
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On 22/07/2016 00:07, "Liam Proven"
<lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
Pretty sure I've got 2 of those, the keyboards are made of Dark Matter. I've
never dared power one up though.
If you have those, I would strongly recommend you arrange an offsite
backup. Say, about 170 miles north via the A14/A1 :-) There
were only a few
made. They were used internally during development - hence the podule to
connect it to a Beeb, which provided the I/O early on - and in the later
stages before the Archimedes launch in 1987, several were loaned to
software
developers.
This is the machine Dick Pountain reviewed, I think. 