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That's not a specific Commodore feature.
Many keyboards from the PC/XT era had the function keys down the left hand side. The original RM Nimbus keyboards do as well.
Never seen or heard of that brand, remember, you guys in the UK had a lot of stuff we never saw. Acorn, BBC, Spacey etc. Even the Dragon was very rare here, as Tandy (I think) put a stop to it, so not to cut into the CoCo sales. SCART is a foreign word to us, and not until I joined the Amiga boards did I even hear the word.
Saturday Score!
too make a long story -short, because I due have a tendency to ramble. Saturdays some of the AMICUE guys meet for coffee. Today, one of them gave me a big box of knowledge!
I had show the NCS 2065T kit and he was cleaning out his storage area, and knew I was getting into Electronics so , in the box was the following:
HeathKit ET3100 Electronic Design Experimenter
HeathKit ET3200 Digital Design Experimenter
And about 6 related HeatKit courses centered around those 2 kits
The nice thing is that all these kits Look about 98% complete, and even have the part bins labelled for each Course. As you know the worst thing about getting "hand me down" kits like this, is all the parts were ussually lost years ago.
Not only are all the courses in almost mint shape, the even come with the original records (yes, I said records) for the audio lectures. These records were those old thin floppy mylar sheets (i have to find a turn table and convert them to MP3's).
These courses of course will have to wait.
He did not buy the ET3400 which of course was the computer trainer unfortunately.
The trainers are a bit dusty and have BNC connectors that are not shown on the original photos below, but everything else is in excellent condition.
too make a long story -short, because I due have a tendency to ramble. Saturdays some of the AMICUE guys meet for coffee. Today, one of them gave me a big box of knowledge!
I had show the NCS 2065T kit and he was cleaning out his storage area, and knew I was getting into Electronics so , in the box was the following:
HeathKit ET3100 Electronic Design Experimenter
HeathKit ET3200 Digital Design Experimenter
And about 6 related HeatKit courses centered around those 2 kits
The nice thing is that all these kits Look about 98% complete, and even have the part bins labelled for each Course. As you know the worst thing about getting "hand me down" kits like this, is all the parts were ussually lost years ago.
Not only are all the courses in almost mint shape, the even come with the original records (yes, I said records) for the audio lectures. These records were those old thin floppy mylar sheets (i have to find a turn table and convert them to MP3's).
These courses of course will have to wait.
He did not buy the ET3400 which of course was the computer trainer unfortunately.
The trainers are a bit dusty and have BNC connectors that are not shown on the original photos below, but everything else is in excellent condition.
If you have no luck tracking down a turntable and it isn't too much to post to the UK (I guess flexidiscs won't weigh much!), I could digitise them for you.
@blankstare
Nice score
@ retro_junky
Thanks for the offer, I am looking at the local thrift stores first, I always see them there for under $10, they pop up all the time. Last week they had a cheap Emerson all in one unit, 8 track, Am-Fm, and turn-table for $8, I am kicking my self for not grabbing it now, but it was a real cheap unit, only 2 terminals at the back for speakers, you could not add anything to it.
I got my Package from Cloanto today. Not really worth posting a picture of the Amiga forever 2009 or the C64 Forever 2009 DVD's. It only took 4 weeks from Cloanto this time, last time I ordered Amiga Forever in 2008, it took almost 3 months.
Nice score
@ retro_junky
Thanks for the offer, I am looking at the local thrift stores first, I always see them there for under $10, they pop up all the time. Last week they had a cheap Emerson all in one unit, 8 track, Am-Fm, and turn-table for $8, I am kicking my self for not grabbing it now, but it was a real cheap unit, only 2 terminals at the back for speakers, you could not add anything to it.
I got my Package from Cloanto today. Not really worth posting a picture of the Amiga forever 2009 or the C64 Forever 2009 DVD's. It only took 4 weeks from Cloanto this time, last time I ordered Amiga Forever in 2008, it took almost 3 months.
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.
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.
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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!
tokyoracer
(Not actually from Tokyo).
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. . .
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.
P.s. A prime retr0bright candidate don't you think? Though a name-change will also be required.
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. . .
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.
P.s. A prime retr0bright candidate don't you think? Though a name-change will also be required.
commodorejohn
Shameless recidivist
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.
