Recent content by cheesestraws

I use mine as an emergency serial console for if I muck up my network kit :-) it works fairly well, and is much nicer looking than many of the alternatives.

You're doing really well here. This is great to watch and hear about.

This is the first ARM laptop. It's a remarkable photo because it is working.

The main thing here is that until you're pretty confident that you've got stable voltages coming out of the PSU, anything else in the system may be acting weirdly or glitchily. So while you're likely right that there are two faults here, you may find it difficult to debug the first until you've...

Nicely done :-). Earthing makes me nervous...

Yeah, that's a far better plan...

"how tp melt your TashTalk"

Ohhhh, I remember what I was asking about this for. This was a bad idea :D. I was trying to see whether I could get LocalTalk and Econet to share wiring. They're very, very similar: both FM-0 SDLC over RS422, but econet has a global clock for each network segment rather than each speaker...

Agreed with this. This is important.

Yup, and it's precisely because floppy drives were ending up like this under even failry light use...

Error Type 7 is a privileged instruction being hit by the CPU when it shouldn't be. If that were going to turn up at all, it'd make sense that it would turn up in the virtual memory code. But aside from 'this error is what I'd expect from malfunctioning VM code', that doesn't help much, I'm afraid

purple hard disk LEDs are classy, honest

Yeah, that looks like a very neat end result. Nicely done.

It's a useful mod. Main thing to be careful of is that you need two separate 12V rails, and you need to make sure that the PSU works properly given that the load applied by an SE/30 is not what a PC PSU necessarily expects.