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• May 27, 2023

And there we go! All clean and working again. Just need some screws to fix the network card in, which are coming in the week

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• May 25, 2023

It lives!

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• May 21, 2023

@Phipli only if you use it upside-down so the ball is on the bottom and you have to use the buttons by craning your fingers around the edges

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• May 20, 2023

@3lectr1cPPC that's the cherry on the cake, isn't it: not even who manufactured it makes much sense :-D

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• May 20, 2023

@Phipli @SophieRose you both lack ambition

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• May 16, 2023

@SophieRose sanity is overrated

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• May 14, 2023

@SophieRose well done!

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• May 11, 2023

@Phipli I knew you'd overclocked it, which is why I was wondering if you'd also done the onboard IDE mod . I've got this one booting now...

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• May 11, 2023

@Phipli fortunately my scaler is fine with the defaults! Is that an IDE podule or did you mod the motherboard?

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• May 11, 2023

@Phipli not yet, but thanks for the corroroboration - that's the next thing to do when I have time, perhaps this eveinng. I'll get the known workig one out of the other a3010

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• May 11, 2023

@Phipli thanks! POSTbox seems to think it's a RAM failure, if I'm reading it right, so I am guessing I need to check around the RAM. Traces don't look bad, though, so it might just be the RAM chip gone bang

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• May 10, 2023

First time in ages I've felt up to doing old computer stuff, and managed to upgrade an Acorn A3010 from 'totally dead' to 'largely dead', which is good progress!

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• Mar 15, 2023

@SophieRose personally I find the weird ROM disc thing really interesting: makes it almost viable to run the whole thing totally discless, which you can't do with any other Mac.

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• Mar 14, 2023

@SophieRose SE is more practical, more robust, but a bit less charming, and doesn't have the weird ROM disk thing. Practically probably a better choice.

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• Mar 13, 2023

@SophieRose the original Classic is one of my favourite machines in its strange little way.

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• Feb 21, 2023

a weird sight: an OS-8 style file share icon on a Lisa

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• Dec 28, 2022

I doubt this has happened before...

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• Dec 20, 2022

Living that 'screen totally dark' Plus lyfe. You know, I'm beginning to think this thing may not be functioning perfectly...

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• Nov 29, 2022

Well, what have we here?

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• Nov 14, 2022

A/UX is half "really impressive" and half held together with string and horror