Reproduction micros

Adrian Graham witchy at binarydinosaurs.co.uk
Fri Jul 22 15:44:59 CDT 2016


On 22/07/2016 21:23, "Pete Turnbull" <pete at dunnington.plus.com> wrote:

> On 22/07/2016 20:36, Adrian Graham wrote:
>> On 22/07/2016 10:04, "Pete Turnbull" <pete at dunnington.plus.com> wrote:
> 
>>> If you have those, I would strongly recommend you arrange an offsite
>>> backup.  Say, about 170 miles north via the A14/A1 :-)
>> 
>> 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.
> 
> Well, those A500s use a standard Master 128 power supply.  I can fix
> that :-)

Feast your eyes. Not pictured are the Dark Matter keyboards because they're
in another room probably weighing something down so it won't fly away...

http://binarydinosaurs.co.uk/acorna500.jpg

It'd be interesting to see if the Rodimes in there power up and start given
their sticky head problems, the label on the other one says 'disc works,
contains lots of useful stuff'.

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Adrian/Witchy
Binary Dinosaurs creator/curator
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