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Hello, Model 30-286, replaced capacitors in floppy drive, reads disks fine, booting to PC-DOS 7 from XTIDE BIOS enabled IDE HDD, drive heads cleaned with a cleaning disk. Refuses to format anything either 1.44mb or 720k either with its native drive or a gotek+flashfloppy. "invalid media or...

I'm just in the process of stripping one of these down and replacing the electrolytics - low ESR - and semis. It was completely dead, the startup cap was reading 10uF out of circuit when it should have been 100uF. I note there are two small daughter boards - one has a uC3903N and generates the...

I'm sure a fair few are aware of FlashFloppy, the open source firmware for the gotek floppy emulator. Its creator Kier Fraser has pushed out Greaseweazle, which is a flux reader/writer running g on the super-cheap bluepill stm32 board! It reads/writes supercard pro format files at the moment...

Hullo, I've been playing with ESP8266 modules (namely the NodeMCU) - lots of people are charging quite a bit of money for wifi modems (e.g. WiModem232, WiFi232). If you're happy to "lash up" you can do it yourself for under £10. If you want to build a standalone one using an ESP-12E modules...

I just thought I'd post my solution to this, but wondered if people had any better ideas. Just acquired two TM100-4's for my Victor (see other threads) - these are double sided which has doubled my storage :D. One of them wasn't playing very nicely at all. A light touch on the heads, however...

Don't know if anyone has any ideas here... I'm trying to bootstrap some form of comms program onto my Victor 9000 under CP/M (I have MS-DOS comms working fine, but you can't copy from dos to CP/M on this system so far as I can tell!) I've found the cp/m-86 kermit archive, but I think I'm going...

Just by way of introduction as I've posted in another thread. My main interest has been maintaining and tinkering with UK Acorn machines from the 1980s and early 90s, but that doesn't stop me poking at other things (Sinclair, Commodore). My current project has been bringing my rather old Victor...