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I think I would of been on it, mid 90s, I still have the letters somewhere. It had kind of been left alone even then. You wrote and got a demo time limited account, and were meant to pay a sub once it ran out, but the demo account just kept going.

Some years ago, I used a viewdata service called silicon village. I had email via my speccy, and would email my pc owning friends, much to their amusement.

lazarusr wrote:and I have the power to sentence people to very long prison terms.

Do the other ones also have this? It never seems to be used these days

The B+ seems to be the forgotten Beeb.

I agree! I had an old ibook G4, that recently I dug out to remove the SSD IDE drive to use in something else, already the plastics had degraded, and were brittle/broken in places. They are rubbish inside, not to mention the use of glue arl ower.

A Pi 3B+ :D ... that doesn't seem work with the official PSU :( ... so investigating that. No amazing projects planned, just like seeing what the wee beasties can do. When I can get them to power up, of course! :roll: I read somewhere that the new one draws more power, and needs a beefier PSU :)

Everyone should have paid attention to my Hakko url link, that explains lead pipes too! Hikaru What?! That is terribly dangerous, isn't it? Mr.Yokoo No, it is not always dangerous. When lead is combined with carbonic acid and oxygen dissolved in water, a film of lead compound (2PbCO3・Pb(OH)2) is dep...

Prime wrote:Well just been to Coventry maplin and spent nearly £100 Closing down sale discounts of up to 50%......

Did you buy two HDMI leads?

Do you have all the cables? It should have an av connector between the two, then the final output.

http://www.hakko.com/english/hikaru/pages/story8.html

It's all explained there in the adventures of Hikaru. Mr Yokoo knows his stuff!

Pleased I've got a good few rolls in storage. I never got on with the lead free

The design still looks great now. Awesome little machine.

Will you be building a big enclosed cabin with lots of gauges?

It's one of those SCART RGB to HDMI black metal boxes from Amazon, connected to an Acorn Electron running on a 1080p HD TV. I think they are great boxes, I use all my old consoles on it. This was a snes on it:

The quality of those small metal scart to hdmi boxes is excellent!

I guess the internets has done for a lot, but Maplin was a shadow of it's former self. I can remember in the mid 80s, we had an Amstrad TV, which was complete crap, and constantly breaking down. My Dad was constantly battling to keep it running. We used to get our parts from a large old skool electr...

Did it glow in the dark?

Big bobbin!

Chinesey?

PM Sent

You can just imagine the heat and smell of hot electronics from that huge long row of tellies.

Hi Andy, how are you doing? I used to get AlchNews, years ago

I was dragging solder round like a pro on a veroboard. I didn't want to either!

Hehehe, I also like:

Hikaru: I'm a working member of society starting today. I feel the pressure. I'm the only new employee here? I wonder if I will have an opportunity to have a party with new women employees?

I did a load of soldering last night with the Hakko, and it's a joy. It just stays hot but never burns, it's ideal for a newbie like myself. My wiring looks a bit rough and ready, just needs testing now :lol: Also the Hakko is great because it has little cartoons on their website. http://www.hakko.c...

Zarchos has the amiga boys rattled!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aqRrN7 ... e=youtu.be

That looks like it belongs with the Foil Silver cover Atari 2600 or Intellivision games by Imagic.

Good work on the toastrack, some canny games there too!

Just needs Emma Peel to go with it!