They wanted to make the world's best video game. They made the world's best selling computer. - ThreadSky

retrocomps.bsky.social • 101 days ago

They wanted to make the world's best video game. They made the world's best selling computer.

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triflegrills.bsky.social•101 days ago

Right on!

Absolute C
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electronics-rocks.bsky.social•101 days ago

The first computer I owned from 1982 & still use!

pragma-once.bsky.social•101 days ago

My first also. I have no idea how excited I was when I got the Super Expander for it. I think I got rid of it when I bought my Atari 600XL

mark-hudson.bsky.social•101 days ago

I love this. I've bit tried plugging my old one in for years. I'll have to dig it out.

retrodamus.bsky.social•100 days ago

I would recommend buying a new power supply made with more modern components before you plug your old one in. You can get one on eBay.

electronics-rocks.bsky.social•100 days ago

The Acorn electron is a different PSU to Commodore as the main power supply for the system is internal.
So as long as the case is not damaged / dangerous it is only a transformer.
I used a USB C adapter saves on PSU lumps. PSU for Electrons using 20w USB C psu soon available!

mark-hudson.bsky.social•100 days ago

I dug out my power supply for the Electron recently and the part where the wire enters the main housing had been bent for so long, and the plastic wire covering seems to have started to harden and perish. I'm afraid to plug it in!

electronics-rocks.bsky.social•100 days ago

Yes prone to that as had to cut back & solder back. I really should have replaced it as the cable lost its plasticiser but didn't have any barrel jacks in stock.
I have now made up the USB C adapter!

electronics-rocks.bsky.social•100 days ago

I still use the original one it came with!
It is the brown slope version which has a good reputation!
I have had it apart checked solder joints which plague the C64 with the black lumps of death!
Also put it on my lab PSU load & tested caps!
I would only purchasing a PSU off a professional site!

mark-hudson.bsky.social•100 days ago

Thanks, I have a really old Acorn power supply for my Electron, but it seems a bit worse for wear now. Do you, or someone else reading this, know if it's possible to get a new version of something compatible?

retrodamus.bsky.social•100 days ago

This is the one I got on eBay. Works perfectly and I’m not worried it’ll burst into flames if it’s left plugged in

https://www.ebay.com/itm/123932177414?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=P2laIfgXQTW&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=nrqxX3FtQFK&var=424714398995&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

mark-hudson.bsky.social•100 days ago

Thanks!

mark-hudson.bsky.social•101 days ago

Oh dear. "Bit" -> "not".

electronics-rocks.bsky.social•101 days ago

My Vic20 has had several VIA 6522 as I used to build things on it I designed:
Train set control.
EPROM programmer / reader.
8 bit Logic analyser.
RS232.

mark-hudson.bsky.social•101 days ago

I've got so many of these old 8bit machines but not tried switching them on for ages. They probably don't even work anymore 😕

mkg.bsky.social•101 days ago

Computing was more exciting, educational innovative in the earlier days.

It was democratized at a scale that doesn’t exist today.

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