Recent content by sirmorris

Hi all, Can anyone please recommend anything to read that will give me a leg-up in creating some basic A2 expansions? I'll start with a RAM board and SD card storage I think. Thanks Charlie

Hi all, I've just become the proud owner of a 2001-8 with mainboard revision 320008. When powered up there is a faint horizontal trace on the CRT when the brightness is full-on. The tape drive turns if I hold down play. That's it. There is a red LED on the main board. Should this indicate...

I've been trying to get a working 486 system together in order to demo some old programs I wrote many years ago. A colleague has given me a lovely 486 dx4 100 which I';m having trouble booting. Naturally after 20 years in the attic the CMOS battery is dead. It's a Dallas DS1287A RTC module...

I shall be going to (and hopefully speaking at) this event. More details here: http://www.consolecombat.co.uk/ Blurb from the site: " Console Combat, a two day retro gaming event that will be taking place on the weekend of 25-26th July 2009 at the Lass O'Gowrie Pub in the Heart of...

Hi all, I'm in the process of adding MMC to every old computer that I own. The ][e is next on the bench. I know solutions exist, but I can't afford them! My favourite is the one which pretends to be a duodisk card. I can't find the link now though. I guess what I'm asking is if anyone has...

... it feels like home! Hi everyone. My name is Charlie and I love old computers. I tend to flit around, my hobby is having hobbies. I don't get much time to attend to any one thing in depth so I tend to have micro-fixations whereupon, on the whole, I'll attach some modern high capacity...