Well. TIL why a cup of coffee is known as a ‘cup o’joe’ thanks to @TechConnectify. This wasn’t the aim of the video but hey 😄

@Mr_Lurch @makerboxall @Devilish_Design You’re only the third person I know who’s seen one, and I’m one of the three. @computermuseum have one and a manual but it’s probs only the user manual, not tech. Search for ‘Ferranti’ on their website and you’ll find the entry.

@Mr_Lurch @makerboxall @Devilish_Design Here's the PCN issue I featured on my Ferranti page -

@Mr_Lurch @makerboxall @Devilish_Design Hehe, I might've known DSE would jump on it, though the beige colour is definitely interesting!

@HereBeDragons3 @LOOKMUMNOCMPUTR @RetroBC_Pete @JonnBlanchard That looks perfectly normal to me.

@LOOKMUMNOCMPUTR @RetroBC_Pete @JonnBlanchard if there's one thing about this hobby it's that it doesn't involve sense 😄

@BreakIntoProg That was me in the cabin around 4pm. Even my mouse was hot.

@Octav1usKing Here’s not my cat of old, aka Lord Boofington Mogsworth III, seen threatening to maul my toes. (He didn’t maul my toes)

@ukscone Ah it was just about his failing businesses, not the pres malarkey. Still, they got Capone on taxes, sooo…

@ukscone Hahaha

@ukscone Linky no worky in the uk.

@Mr_Lurch @Devilish_Design @gridrunners I can scan the pages of Personal Computer News that it was in, assuming they’re not already on

@Devilish_Design @Mr_Lurch @gridrunners Ah, I was sure one of us had done it 😄 Yep, it’s an ASTEC as per System 5 and now my Genie III since it needed a decent PSU.

@Devilish_Design @Mr_Lurch @gridrunners I had no idea they were available in beige! Amazing, and actually looks a bit more professional I think. I’ll put a STOP! label on mine so I won’t get a 💥 next time I fire it up, though I’m thinking it’s the same PSU as an Acorn System 5 so I may have already declawed it.

@CommodoreBlog Morning, PET.

@daph2theb It's a crap 8086 PC running DOS3 with an absolutely stupid expansion slot design which means that if you put a hardcard in there's no way to fix it so it can be wobbled, knocked and have $Beverage spilt in it. Ridiculous. It's also just an Amscrap PC20 in black.

@CommodoreBlog Dammit, I've got Dougie Fresh in my head now.

@Devilish_Design The sweet spot of moving to half height drives with 24v motors. They're the reason I now own a 24v psu :)

@Devilish_Design Lovely pair of Tandon TM848's too.

@daph2theb *fistbump*

@PeterGordon68K That was well splendid, I think I need some more of that :D

@daph2theb Kinell mate, it was scheduling like that which led to my first nervous breakdown in the 90s. You're clearly stronger than me.

@MLE_Online That's excellent, well old-skool. I love it.

@HereBeDragons3 Uh-oh 😆 I have visions of the last bungalow I rented which also had a loft. Just as I was locking the door for the final time on leaving (demolition next day) I looked up and saw the loft hatch 😱 Didn’t finish moving stuff until 3am.

@HugoSuperfreak @greg_doucette

@daph2theb Had a week in Dumfries once, installing a pair of DEC Alpha 4100s running as an ASE Unix cluster. By day 3 I passed as Scottish by the locals around the hotel 😆

@NotObsoleteKent This is what the extra socket will be for :)

@NotObsoleteKent @RetroBC_Pete This is what most of my repairs are like these days :D The Sirius PSU repair is paused while I wait for chopper transistors to come from Germany because I refuse to pay Littlediode's prices.

@ChinnyHonk So far we've not found life on Mars, but what about Peckham?

@Devilish_Design Holly sheet! The motherload 😮

@NotObsoleteKent @RetroBC_Pete Lower? Power! Bloody phone.

@NotObsoleteKent @RetroBC_Pete Yep, that’s the plan. A one-shot socket with bendy legs so I can pull out 38 and 39 and feed a lower driven osc in instead of the onboard one. My analyser will hopefully be happy with that.

@NotObsoleteKent No worries mate, it took all week for the TTL oscillator to arrive so I’m a bit behind. I realised after I’d bought it that you’d got a metric shitload of test gear in and would probs have a 4mhz function generator for external clockage. Never mind 😄

@MindFlareRetro I love my MOS one 😁 Still need to get the VIC20 one too but maybe after the car has finished emptying my wallet.

@thilographie_de @morefunmakingit Indeed, yup.

@morefunmakingit I’ll be all over Northumberland when I’m up there so don’t worry about that, but aye. If it goes it goes.

@morefunmakingit Ask if they can wait till next month when I’m up visiting family, I can pick it all up for you.

@morefunmakingit @thilographie_de I nearly used spare cabin logs 😁

@hjalfi True, I didn’t consider the part shortage, I’ve had my FE For years, ever since you helped me image my Brother FB100 floppies. It also helped me image all the Sorcerer disks I have so it’s just made of win. My GW helped me image my 8” ISIS-II disks so that’s made of win too.

@morefunmakingit @thilographie_de 870mm was the beefiest legs I could get, also my two greatest workspaces have been countertops in kitchens. Might have to revisit that as I get older 😄

@morefunmakingit Kitchen counter height - 870mm. Proper standing workspace, and it explains why I used to have difficulty sometimes in the workshop at work - measured those countertops last week and they’re 830mm. Makes all the difference.

Ho yus. Thanks to maths, levers, fulcrums, dollies and pure brute strength I got that worktop out of the cabin, trimmed it down, fitted leg supports and got it nailed to the wall while still being level. Total cost: £32 for the legs. *dies* 🍻

@Devilish_Design I thought they’d stopped using AC8150s by the m3?

Given how much it costs to build a fluxengine why haven’t you all got one?

These tees are excellent quality, well worth a punt.