21 Aug
2006
21 Aug
'06
6:55 a.m.
From: "Pete Edwards" <stimpy.u.idiot at
gmail.com>
Hi
I put some DC#4 silicon grease on the connector pins and one could
bounce the unit on the table without causing it to drop connections.
Most of the problem was caused by dissimilar materials. The boards
were just solderplate pins.
Dwight
I don't
remember that much about the ZX80, apart from the regulator kept cutting
out
and eventually went pop. My Father spent a couple of evenings making up a
decent stabilised PSU for it.
Yet again classiccmp triggers a Proustian moment of nostalgia for me :)
This
time it's
that if you so much as looked at the 16K RAM pack funny the connection was
so crappy there would be a huge flicker on the TV screen and everything
would be... gone.
Happy days.