After the last BBC stream I pondered that maybe the suspect disc drive’s heads were just dirty, so we clean those. Then investigate a couple of Master Compact systems, and end up opening the Amiga again to work out which Kickstart ROM it had (1.3) and realised it had a mono video output! Streaming PC bluescreened towards the end, but we picked up where we left off. ...
More bits arrived so the Z80 boards are starting to fill up. Gave the BBC keys a bit of a clean, and with the soldering iron fixed, took the A501 apart to see what was going on inside, and a quick run down of things to come. ...
Trying to get the backplane connectors into the backplane board (they’re wire wrap connectors I think, so the pins seem slightly larger)… Seeing what IC sockets I have, checking some 74 series logic chips in the Minipro, first look at the “suspect” A501 from the Amiga, and salvaging a few bits from an old PSU. ...