@TheRetroHQ My reliance on it for work grows less and less by the day, even though the day job is 80% azure cloud based these days.

@TheRetroHQ I must’ve been hallucinating when they said win10 was the last ‘version’ of Windows.

@syllopsium @SWRetroComp @ColonelFalcon @Withnailmarwood @retrokatg @RetroGamersClub @HereBeDragons3 @Devilish_Design @billysastard1 This ^^

@ChinnyVision It’s not a PPC though, it’s much worse 😄

@Sig2650 @DeadFleshRetro @ScottACoe @SWRetroComp @Devilish_Design @billysastard1 @Withnailmarwood @ColonelFalcon @retrokatg @HereBeDragons3 @GeekyZombieKing @Retro_Computers @ComputerHistory You must be the Derek who gave me some words for my own Database page? My Brain is telling me I should already know this.

Aw no. 🤬 Sending internet weirdo (me) hugs to Bev and his family. I never met Kim but that’s not always important in this community. RIP mate.

@IO83MZero @DosFox1 You could be right, it’s been a loooong time since I was inside any of my IIs.

@DosFox1 Beware the soldered battery of doom…

@JohnKennedyMSFT Maybe they’re looking for probable caws to invade.

@DosFox1 Oops.

@DosFox1 Yeah. I’d have done that too for that money.

@DTL @PunkHotelier I can toe-tally see what you did there.

@DosFox1 I’ve never done that, but I HAVE pulled the battery-destroyed 68k socket out of an A2000 using my zhongdi and that wasn’t fun at all. How much is a new 68k cpu these days?

@JohnKennedyMSFT It doesn’t have any crows in it?

@PeterGordon68K @billysastard1 @derekpetrucelli @SWRetroComp @ColonelFalcon @Withnailmarwood @retrokatg @HereBeDragons3 @Devilish_Design @spectrum48k True, fixed the CIRCLE command so it actually drew one, addressed some cassette issues and broke a few things. Standard patch 😄

@derekpetrucelli @SWRetroComp @ColonelFalcon @Withnailmarwood @retrokatg @billysastard1 @HereBeDragons3 @Devilish_Design @spectrum48k Well, yes, it’s a standard 48k machine, just with a newer less rubbery coat on. This is like Oric saying the Atmos was compatible with the original 48k because it too was the same machine in a fancier jacket.

@ryanteck Not everyone has an ISO of most windows flavours kicking around. I always keep ‘em and the service packs just in case.

@HereBeDragons3 @JonnBlanchard It was thee and me looking at a teardown of one ages ago wasn’t it, there’s nowt inside compared to what you’d expect.

@JonnBlanchard That’s the bonkers machine where the ‘screen’ isn’t. It still outputs to a tv. Wouldn’t say no though 😅

@ZXGuesser That was a great read. I wonder if Colin can remember anything about his dealings with the SAA5070 LUCY chip because there are seemingly zero docs left out there apart from 2 pages in a Signetics databook.

@MOS_8502 Yup. Or when there’s a ‘guest’ who knows even less about the subject in hand than the presenter. Keep my mouth shut though, the inevitable response will be ‘start your own channel’

@ConnorKrukosky @vcfederation Nice work on the PSU. I’ve got a MacXL with a 1.8A PSU that won’t power on but the PSUs have always been alien boxes to me so I’ve left it alone. One day...

@SWRetroComp @Devilish_Design @HereBeDragons3 @billysastard1 @ColonelFalcon @Withnailmarwood @retrokatg @0xC0DE6502 @EverythingC64 Very full bin today. Oh ok. Keep C16 and give it a new PSU and 64k upgrade. Assuming its TED hasn’t blown chunks of course. Add an SDcard to the Elk and give it away, chuck 600xl.

@arturo182 Depends on what you’re stripping. I’ve got similar ones to the greens there (RS, acquired from a sparky) for mains and chonky wire, down to proper multi-gauge types for 20-28AWG. All the other budget types have been next to useless.

@GarethOHare3 @SWRetroComp @ColonelFalcon @Withnailmarwood @retrokatg @billysastard1 @HereBeDragons3 @Devilish_Design @spectrum48k I did wonder 😊

@SWRetroComp @ColonelFalcon @Withnailmarwood @retrokatg @billysastard1 @HereBeDragons3 @Devilish_Design @spectrum48k Shoite. Awful plastic crap and an effort I couldn’t appreciate because I had a SAGA1 on my Speccy at the time.

@gedgehead Same for me too, even back in my website days doing something entirely from new was always a challenge.

@_gazmarshall Happy h2g2+1 😄🐟

@loudscotsbloke Sweet! Yet again something on my loooong todo list. What’s the specs? I’ve been keeping the PSU from a Cisco 850 router for just this kind of thing.

@daph2theb @CommodoreBlog Just realised I’ve not seen Shuttleworth for 10 years. He threw quavers at us.

@daph2theb @CommodoreBlog So is my taste in music 👍🏻

@daph2theb @CommodoreBlog *snort* 😆

@susan_witts @futurewas8bit For a late 90s ISO inspection I was tasked with labelling ‘working’ and ‘nonworking’ hardware. I did, then the doors, door handles and stairwell, toilet fittings. I was asked ‘not to take the piss’ but insisted the inspector wouldn’t know if the toilet was working or not 🤣

@futurewas8bit I approve of the ‘look around you’ item labelling.

@Gadgetoid Both of mine were in Ely, no probs at all.

@SX64man I do this all the time too, the only extra thing to beware of is that if the chips are badly silkscreened enough then that may come off, so if your machine is sufficiently rare for there to not be schematics or BOMs available take pics of the chips.

@Devilish_Design @HereBeDragons @loudscotsbloke @SharpworksMZ @SWRetroComp @johnblanchard @KevEdwardsRetro @shieladixon @theory_retro @AfRetro @DosFox1 @JohnKennedyMSFT @CommodoreBlog @BreakIntoProg @electron_greg I’m still miffed I gave away my GRiDCASE2 just because the psu kept crowbarring. Reasoning at the time was ‘I’ll never have the skills to troubleshoot that’ 🙄 (This was 11 years ago)

@Devilish_Design @HereBeDragons @loudscotsbloke @SharpworksMZ @SWRetroComp @johnblanchard @KevEdwardsRetro @shieladixon @theory_retro @AfRetro @DosFox1 @JohnKennedyMSFT @CommodoreBlog @BreakIntoProg @electron_greg Awesome! Cheers mate 🎉🍻

Anyone else would have been asking for a Kickstarter 2 years before delivery (if ever). Future Was 8 Bit put their money where their mouth is, funded it themselves and launched the product without fuss.

@Withnailmarwood Once seen, never forgotten

@CommodoreBlog Reminds me of one of the funniest things I’ve heard James Acaster say “Part man part machine part bird part drum, it’s Robobongocuckoocop”

@SharpworksMZ @loudscotsbloke @6502nerd @0xC0DE6502 @HereBeDragons3 @KevEdwardsRetro @BreakIntoProg @JoachimFroholt @jimblimey @JonnBlanchard @JAMOGRAD @electron_greg Cheers mate! That’s brightened my morning immeasurably 🥳

@andytuk Waka waka waka

@Gadgetoid “Someone” being greedy corporate landlords? Of course!

@SWRetroComp @billysastard1 @Handheld_Museum @forgottencmptrs @HereBeDragons3 @Devilish_Design @ComputerHistory Keep the DIP since it’s the only ‘proper’ DOS machine of the 3, the other 2 can fight it out in a bucket of meh. Mine needs to be out more: