12 Dec
2003
12 Dec
'03
9:35 a.m.
In message <20031212231758.GD8803(a)bos7.spole.gov>
Ethan Dicks <dickset(a)amanda.spole.gov> wrote:
On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 10:39:31PM +0000, Philip
Pemberton wrote:
Mine came with the power brick (it's more of a
cube-on-a-wire), but I don't
know if it came with the calculator. I assume it did - the calculator would
be pretty useless without it.
Hi,
Someone's just given me a Commodore Minuteman 3MW (model MM3MW) calculator.
I'd be interested in any info as well. I have a genuine C= wall wart to go
with mine, bought *years* later, in a box of assorted cables/mice/etc from
a nearby thrift store. Mine seems to be having problems with dirty switch
contacts. It's too
erratic to use. I have not attempted to fiddle with the keyboard directly.
This
one's been sitting in a cupboard for roughly twenty years and it still
works flawlessly. Unfortunately, being the clumsy idiot I am, I went and put
a scratch in the back casing while I was trying to remove the corroded power
connector. Even after a liberal dose of WD40 the locking nut refused to
budge. In the end I grabbed the connector with a pair of heavy-duty
sidecutters, snapped the plastic casing and destroyed the thread on the screw
fitting. Needless to say, the locknut fell off rather quickly after that
treatment - it had corroded onto the screwthread. Bah.
Anyone know if there's a way to repair scratches in plastic? :)
On a lighter note, I've managed to fix my dead Acorn A4 with the aid of a
pair of 0.33 Ohm 0.6W flameproof resistors. There are two of them fitted
between the 6-pin power connector and the IDE connector. After a half-hour
desolder-and-replace session, the machine came back to life. Now I need to
fix the wretched display data flat-cable - it's got a crack in it :-/
Later.
--
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(A)bort (R)etry (W)ire up to a Tesla Coil and watch it glow like a lightning bug.