Self-combusting Speccy

From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre_at_stockholm.ptloma.edu>
Date: Sun Oct 21 21:16:02 2001

> So I find this nice little program called "Toot", which "toots" Spectrum
> snapshots into the earphone socket of said machine.
> What happens when I plug the machine in? A hideous smell, that's what. Now I'm
> back at square one. No working Speccy. All I get is a black screen. When fine-
> tuning the receiver, the border is sometimes visible.
> Is there something irreplacable, like the ULA, which has broken, or is it the
> CPU (I've got plenty of those) or just some discrete component?

I don't know which Spectrum this is, but when one of my TS1000's (ZX-81)
blew its ULA the symptoms were near-identical.

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