TOP STUFF!!!! :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
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TOP STUFF!!!! :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
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Originally Posted by AndyLandy
Very nice Andy! :thumbsup:
Kin
You guys better quit drooling over the CDTV, it may got a short circuit!
@Andy: congratulations, mate. That's a beautiful complete machine.
That is one very nice machine there chap, where did you find that?
Ah, I love my CDTV - I really should start upgrading it...
As promised, some pictures of my progress and my Heathkit Courses.
I did find out (for those that are interested), the new Heathkit WILL mark and honour the old courses. the catch is I have to send in the original test sheets (not photocopied) and I think some have been filled out all ready.
I did call them this morning, as I want to order their solder course (about $30 USD) They are sending me a catalogue with all the prices.
That was sent to me by dougal. I swapped an A1200 accelerator for it. My A1200 now only has 4MB FastRAM in the trapdoor, but it's good enough for my needs, and now I have a CDTV to play with!Quote:
Originally Posted by r0jaws
Nice deal andy, a little shame for your accelerator, but hey, I like even my A500 to and that is slower then an A1200 without accelerator..
Ok my first post on this thread, this is my boot-sale special (last time was a nice boxed A500+, with deadly floppies which i'l explain later).
Here I spotted a lonely A600, on the grass no less! Asked the fella how much, "fiver" he said, "no cables" he added. 'Hmm... Has to be worth a punt at that price' I thought, dispite it's terrible yellowness but I decided il nab a few other things (Atari Joystick and Sinclair LightGun) and see if he would give me the lot for the same price and he accepted. :)
Went home, gave her a clean, got my s****y TV out just for a quick test (R/F only! D=) and a floppy with a quick demo intro and this was the result. . .
http://i579.photobucket.com/albums/s...u/IMG_3582.jpg
Thought I'd try out some floppys I bought last year from the last Amiga related buy from a car boot sale, this proved fatel for the poor floppy drive (as with other drives, not realising I forgot to bin the lot). Got no idea why the disks made all the racket but thanks to a couple of them, it reads nothing now. :bomb
I also got no idea why even a dodgy disk could stop a drive from working but yes they are all gone now thankfully. Though it was lucky in the spare room I had an exact drive pulled from a buggerd up 600 years ago so I gave it a go and shes back to life again. Strange that it sounds different from the last dispite being identical in looks in every respect.
I'm thinking of giving her a name, 'Butterscotch' springs to mind. :lol:
P.s. A prime retr0bright candidate don't you think? Though a name-change will also be required.
I know that in some old 5.25" drives I've used a bad disk can spread loose magnetic coating and other gunk on the read head and cause read errors even on good disks. I don't know if that happens with 3.5" disks, but if you don't have any other way to resurrect the drive, you might try what I do in those situations and clean the head with a cotton swab and low-grade rubbing alcohol.