Thirty years today
Yes, 10/10/84
I got my first rubber keyed friend. :)
I can still vaguely remember the bus ride back, clutching the box along with the 'addon' pack from the Co-op.
Memory is a bit hazy but I do recall we had to swap it as it would not load from either of two tape recorders we had.
A few days later I recall seeing the horizons 'Volume Set Correctly - Please Wait' screen excitedly followed by the 'Rainbow' :)
Random pic from just now ( ! )
I got my first rubber keyed friend. :)
I can still vaguely remember the bus ride back, clutching the box along with the 'addon' pack from the Co-op.
Memory is a bit hazy but I do recall we had to swap it as it would not load from either of two tape recorders we had.
A few days later I recall seeing the horizons 'Volume Set Correctly - Please Wait' screen excitedly followed by the 'Rainbow' :)
Random pic from just now ( ! )
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Great pic, by the way!
Said speccy has just had (last week) the usual composite mod but using a 100uf cap inline. I carefully enlarged one of the insulated holes just enough to get the long cap lead through to the board. Mod was removed / gutted and put back.
Also popped a reset switch into the case very top left of the video out too.
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The case is the same the innards are not. :)
The board in that case was obtained from a very broken (key tops missing etc) and battered 48+ around the mid 90's. The board was thankfully OK.
Yeah :o
Poor lighting and poor camera too, plus there was no one here to help me at the time so I just put the camera onto a shelf, set the timer at 5 seconds and stood back. :D Several attempts later that was the result even though I had to brighten it a bit before uploading.
Batteries were dying so I could not re-attempt it after that, had to pick the best of the ones it took to use.