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From: T i m on 19 Jun 2010 19:05
On 19 Jun 2010 22:40:23 GMT, Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote:

>T i m <news(a)spaced.me.uk> wrote:
>> On Sat, 19 Jun 2010 16:48:01 +0100, Ian McCall <ian(a)eruvia.org> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I also have a sad and solemn duty to perform tomorrow - tipping two
>>> Spectrums that we hoped to be able to glue together to form a working
>> >
>>> one. Alas not.
>>>
>>
>> I (think I) have the full cct diagrams and setup / service manual here
>> if it would be any use?
>
>I used to make good money repairing spectrums as a sideline. What is
>wrong with them?


I just found this place (not looked for Sinclair spares for a while)
;-)

http://www.rwapsoftware.co.uk/membranes.html

Amazing to think there's still a market out there.

Cheers, T i m


From: Richard Kettlewell on 20 Jun 2010 04:42
T i m <news(a)spaced.me.uk> writes:

> I just found this place (not looked for Sinclair spares for a while)
> ;-)
>
> http://www.rwapsoftware.co.uk/membranes.html
>
> Amazing to think there's still a market out there.

I'd be in that market if I was ever likely to turn my QL back on (broken
keyboard ribbon cable...)

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From: Jack Campin - bogus address on 20 Jun 2010 04:51
> <http://www.ursaminorbeta.co.uk/VCF2010/index.html>
>
> Not great pictures, but a very enjoyable day out. Still on tomorrow
> if anyone's insterested.

Somebody's managed to keep a Perq or two running for 20 years?
Or were they dead? (The screens aren't lit).

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From: Jim on 20 Jun 2010 05:16
Jack Campin - bogus address <bogus(a)purr.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> > <http://www.ursaminorbeta.co.uk/VCF2010/index.html>
> >
> > Not great pictures, but a very enjoyable day out. Still on tomorrow
> > if anyone's insterested.
>
> Somebody's managed to keep a Perq or two running for 20 years?
> Or were they dead? (The screens aren't lit).

All I know for a fact tis that they weren't on. However, they're in a
section that tends to contain stuff that's in the process of being
cleaned up and fixed.

Jim
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product' in what IT experts have described as the most ambitious
understatement since the captain of the Titanic reported some
slightly damp tablecloths." http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/
From: Pd on 20 Jun 2010 05:51
T i m <news(a)spaced.me.uk> wrote:

> On Sat, 19 Jun 2010 18:15:57 +0100, peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid (Pd)
> wrote:
>
> > I had one of the first IBM-PCs at work,
> >phenomenally expensive, but no idea that they would become such a
> >dominant system.
>
> I have a cassette interfaced one dominating some space in my loft.
>
> In fact that exhibition could have been held in my (or Jim's probably)
> loft. ;-)

Welcome back T i m. Good holiday?

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