Hi Tony,
>> So that makes at least two "spotted in the wild"....
>
> Indeed, well, unless the chap managed to find the cables,
>disks, manuals, etc....
Possible I suppose, he was looking for manuals and discs. I did offer to
give him my set of manuals but he never did ring me about them.
> The Hires card is fun :-). It's not a high resolution by today's
>standards, but it wasn't too bad for the time. The colour output
>option plugs into the hires card....
Quite, it was the highest resolution display I'd used at the time - the only
other machines I'd used to any great extent at the time were a PET, a Nascom
II and my ZX-80....
We never had the colour option. :-(
> We had one of these at school. I remember being asked (and
>succeeding in doing) to modify a large/expensive Barco monitor to
>take RGB inputs....
>....learnt the value of good service data and schematics (which
>both RML and Barco provided).
Yep, back in those days you pretty much ALWAYS got at least the schematics
with such equipment. It's something I really miss....and I was more than a
little miffed that my ZX-80 (pre-assembled) didn't come with such
documentation when it finally arrived.
TTFN - Pete.
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Hardware & Software Engineer. Sound Engineer.
Collector of Arcade Machines, Games Consoles & Obsolete Computers (esp DEC)
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Received on Tue Mar 28 2000 - 13:11:58 BST