Sometimes, before you can make a thing you have to make the tools to make the thing. Or to put it another way … while having a bunch of breadboards tenuously connected by a rats nest of inscrutably coloured wires might be impressive (when it doesn’t look like a bomb), on occasion it’s good to have a tool that simplifies… Read more »
Alas, the reconditioned BBC Master Turbo I bought towards the beginning of last year is now sickly. What was a stroll down memory lane has become a project. When I switch on the machine, I get the Acorn MOS message and (usually) the DFS one, but then only a flashing underline cursor. Once or twice I’ve seen more (‘not a… Read more »
It’s amazing what people throw away. This morning, the More Significant Other and I stopped off at the local dump to drop some things into the charity collection point. And my eye was caught by a bin full of computer monitors. Sitting on top of the Nineties-era Dell and Acer CRTs was something a little more retro-looking. I knew what… Read more »