Post AVed7MTuPNQ7i2CRhg by stylus@octodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #AVed7MTuPNQ7i2CRhg by stylus@octodon.social
       2023-04-29T18:18:43Z
       
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       I just scored an apparently-working Z80 CP/M system (Xerox 820) at an estate sale. The computer lives inside the monitor, plus there's a keyboard & HUGE two 8" disk drives. One of the floppies will boot it to an "A>" CP/M command prompt. What in the world will I do with it? #retroComputing #z80 #cpm
       
 (DIR) Post #AVed7Py9ROOUWhN8l6 by stylus@octodon.social
       2023-05-04T14:08:48Z
       
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       after I had it on for 20 or 30 minutes, it let out the magic smoke from an X-class capacitor on the PSU board. #retroComputing #sparky #magicSmokeI found some info from someone who had a very similar failure and positively identified the failed capacitor (mine was unidentifiable): http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/Xerox/820-II.html
       
 (DIR) Post #AVed7RhD1M1vsjSdd2 by stylus@octodon.social
       2023-05-05T14:45:42Z
       
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       Capacitors ordered! If I succeed at recapping this power supply (and the one in the drive enclosure) I'll do a blog post about it. It's nothing I have done before
       
 (DIR) Post #AVed7TIT4JQaqZtuLI by stylus@octodon.social
       2023-05-14T16:20:03Z
       
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       After recapping, it's alive! And I blogged about it https://emergent.unpythonic.net/01683808046 #retroComputing #z80 #cpm
       
 (DIR) Post #AVedAtnezGLTui7oOW by Polychrome@poly.cybre.city
       2023-05-14T18:45:17.977032Z
       
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       @stylus I love the font!