28 Mar
2000
28 Mar
'00
5:11 a.m.
Hi Tony,
Possible I suppose, he was looking for manuals and discs. I did offer to
give him my set of manuals but he never did ring me about them.
So that makes
at least two "spotted in the wild"....
Indeed, well, unless the chap managed to find the cables,
disks, manuals, etc.... The Hires card is fun :-). It's not a high
resolution by today's
standards, but it wasn't too bad for the time. The colour output
option plugs into the hires card....
Quite, it was the highest resolution display I'd used at the time - the only
other machines I'd used to any great extent at the time were a PET, a Nascom
II and my ZX-80....
We never had the colour option. :-(
We had one of these at school. I remember being asked
(and
succeeding in doing) to modify a large/expensive Barco monitor to
take RGB inputs....
....learnt the value of good service data and schematics (which
both RML and Barco provided).
Yep, back in those days you pretty much ALWAYS got at least the schematics
with such equipment. It's something I really miss....and I was more than a
little miffed that my ZX-80 (pre-assembled) didn't come with such
documentation when it finally arrived.
TTFN - Pete.
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Hardware & Software Engineer. Sound Engineer.
Collector of Arcade Machines, Games Consoles & Obsolete Computers (esp DEC)
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