Subj : What's in your retro closet?
To   : Nigel Reed
From : Bob Worm
Date : Tue Feb 20 2024 08:57:44

  Re: What's in your retro closet?
  By: Nigel Reed to FSXNET.FSX_RETRO on Mon Feb 19 2024 23:01:00

Hi, Nigel.

 > After finding a BBC for sale in the US, I started to regain my
 > collection, picking up a floppy drive, a modern real time clock
 > solution, gotek, so I don't need a hard drive, AMX mouse, printer and
 > other bits and bobs, I decided to start collecting other stuff I owned
 > or touched in my childhood.
Nice - I hated BBC micros in school, probably because I was never allowed on them because I "already knew computers" but I saved one from a skip circa 20 years ago and, now I'm an old grunter, I've decided to explore it. It just made it to my desk last night after a short stint in the repair area (the loft). It's a good job it came in via the loft because the power supply burnt up a RIFA capacitor which *stunk*... Anyway, it's awaiting a colour composite mod and I will probably stick an ESP8266 serial-to-wifi inside it for BBSing.

Have you done anything with the ROM sockets? I'm thinking of cobbling together something with battery backed SRAM so I can choose which "ROMs" to run at any given moment.

I was going to suggest Vela's BeeBS board to you but I can see you already found it :)

 > So, what is in your retro collection and what bits are you looking for?
 > We might be able to help each other out, if not directly then via other
 > groups we know.

Got: BBC B, Acorn A3020, Pentium I laptop (does that count? It's a real pain finding an OS for it these days!)

Want: Would love a C64 again, not a lofty goal, but having seen a YouTube video recently where someone had new old stock of the C64 "Light Fantastic" edition, which is what I had (or rather shared) as a kid... that would be the absolute win.



BobW
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