The Acorn ARMy at the ready
First up the A3020
Boots no problem
Next up the A3010 Unit 1
Working as required
A3010 Unit 2
Working just fine
Next A3010 Unit 3
A happy bunny
And finally A3010 Unit 4
Working as intended.. less the floppy
Man was that a long day. Has to be done
though. Battery damage is a problem on
many machines and is something you have
to keep an eye on even after removal.
Sadly I have no way of dealing with the
capacitors. If you would like to guess
just how many capacitors I have here that
probably need changing... Answers on a postcard
All done. Managed to cut my finger wide open
on the metal shielding to the first A3010. It
is lethal so beware. Blood everywhere...
The Acorn bARMy ARMy....
Did you get the ARM reference there
PS I kept buying A3010s on Ebay cus when
they arrived I didn't think they were working.
So I kept trying. Little did I know was with
the battery flat you need to keep hitting the
DELETE key to boot into the system.
One other thing.. Ebay hasn't always been the
overpriced selling site that it is now. Back in
the early days I could pick up an A3010 for £10
I was recalling an auction last night for a boxed
Amiga A1200 with hard drive that I won for £11
Folk today just see the BUY-NOW figure that everything
is sold for and sticks that on instead of running
an auction, which is how it use to be. Funny, but
EBAY now has become the very same as auctions in
online video games like WOW. That's how they do
business in Azeroth... Just as bonkers there.
