Weekend's finds

From: Adrian Graham <witchy_at_i12.com>
Date: Sun Dec 3 13:56:14 2000

Hi Folks,

I don't know if this'll work since I'm posting from home, but I just thought
I'd ask if anyone's come across one of these before: Apricot XEN-i XD20. I
got it with an Acorn Archimedes A4000 (nice to have a working one at last!)
and it's got some really odd features, like external power supply (or so it
would seem), an LED on the front panel labelled 'voice' and more
input/output ports than something with a lot of ports. The keyboard is also
one with the 'micro display' on with programmable function keys :)
Since there's a 15 pin D type marked 'DC Input' I assume I need to power the
box externally, and since there's also a normal 4-pin style 'DC Output' I
also assume I need to feed it +12 and +5V. Pix to come soon.

I also got a right odd looking thing - it's a (or at least looks like a)
ZX81 peripheral. There's a crystal on it as well as 3 chips, 4060, 4040 and
4087 and its marked 'G4IDE' or 'G41DE' on the front and 'FAX PCB' on the
back. Since I don't believe anyone produced a FAX add-on for the ZX81 I'm a
bit puzzled!

Finally there's an adapter for the Vic/C64 that lets you use 2 C2Ns - one
for dedicated saving and the other for dedicated loading.

Little things, but sometimes little things are good :)

adrian/witchy
www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the Online Computer Museum
Received on Sun Dec 03 2000 - 13:56:14 GMT