21 Oct
2001
21 Oct
'01
2:16 p.m.
So I find this nice little program called
"Toot", which "toots" Spectrum
snapshots into the earphone socket of said machine.
What happens when I plug the machine in? A hideous smell, that's what. Now I'm
back at square one. No working Speccy. All I get is a black screen. When fine-
tuning the receiver, the border is sometimes visible.
Is there something irreplacable, like the ULA, which has broken, or is it the
CPU (I've got plenty of those) or just some discrete component?
I don't know which Spectrum this is, but when one of my TS1000's (ZX-81)
blew its ULA the symptoms were near-identical.
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