ianparr.bsky.social
Vintage computer enthusiast and collector
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Wait. What ?
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I'm going to stop following you and then follow you again so I can be the thousandth follower ;-)
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Rather like Richmond 'sausages' are known as pink sludge tubes in my household.
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My wife is making me watch all these old TOTP episodes too.
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I'm worried you don't have enough tape to punch !
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Didn't the BluTak keep it where you left it !?
I don't need 10 years to lose something I urgently need - 5 minutes usually does the trick !
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The Billy has never looked so good.
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I think so.
I tried to help you out a little.
Had a storage unit years ago but it got so expensive. Exiting it helped me to slim down my collection a little.
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I have some original knobs for one of those somewhere. Had one years ago.
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Gosh thats a monster - those are 8" drives right ?
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Yeah, it is.
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Oh, my mistake. When I looked at it on my laptop the board looked damaged. Now zooming in on my phone and it looks ok.
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Is the PCB accurately reproducing some kind of battery leakage effect ? The mask (or something) looks a bit odd.
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can I make a belt from one of these cables.....
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yes, there seem to have been a few app specific keyboard variations on these. That aside, seems to be pretty much stock. Need to look into the little video controller breakout board., I can only assume it has a character set stored in that EPROM.
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Tried that. Good luck. They will all be emergencies.
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'consoleboxes' on Ebay ?
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Does when you are looking at cost/benefit I'm afraid.
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As I recall Twitter still has more than 20 times the number of UK users compared with Bsky.
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As a matter of interest, what colour is the cartridge port connector ?
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53i8008 if it has enough digits.
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Its funny (literally) but all I had lying around. A recording from 1980's TV mocumentary of the spoof rock band 'Bad News' followed by a recording of Van Halen - a REAL rock band.
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Nice. My Famicom (and Famicom disk system) tissue box has just arrived. I never knew I needed it until now.
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Gosh never had one do that - mine have always had a dry explosion and occasional fire. Your looks rather moist.
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Flogged mine, Remote was worth more than the telly. A triumph of form over function.
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That logo looks like BT Tower (my office) on its side
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Bluetac then ?
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Squirt of Pledge and wipe and it will be ready to go !
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Bought one. It is quite nice - looks better with whisky in it of course. More CX-40 than CX-10 IMHO
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I have some 8 drives if you need one.
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in the SX64 ? it will be the PLA
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Turn it off and on again ?
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Oh, its just down the road for me too !
I don't know if you ever visit Horsham but there is a nice little vintage arcade just been setup in the Swan Walk shopping centre.
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Sorted ?
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offer still there if you are stuck
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Have you got the machine to go with that car reg. ?
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Ha ! have just been restoring an RX50 this very weekend. What a weird drive set up.
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Is this resolved ? If not, PM me and i'll give you my BT work email address to see if I can speed things up.
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Nice. I have one of those too.
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Don't know why folk don't just set a reserve.
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You'll be on Strictly Come Dancing next.
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New drone delivery service ?