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ScuzzBlog: Diaries May 2017

Entry 29th May 2017: Post: 2


For ever losing stuff


Hi

Neither the A3010 or A3000 booted into the OS. Well that's not true, the 
A3000 did until I plugged in the mouse and now I get an error. I know 
the battery is next to the mouse port on the Acorn 3000. The A3010 just 
fires up Supervisor. I have opened up the A3010 and can see that the 
battery is badly leaking. Trouble is these folk that made these machines 
always have one screw they tighten and take the screw head off. I sense 
its a repair place that does it so you have to keep going back to them. 
Was the same with all the Amstrads and last night the BBC also had a 
real struggle with one of the screws. This one on the A3010 I just 
cannot remove, the head has completely gone. So I have bought one of 
those screw removers from Ebay and see how I get on. Sad when you think 
there is a battery leaking and I can't get to it.

Both the BBCs work. Remember the one that was smoking. I left it for 
quite a while last night and was playing around in BASIC and no nasty 
smells and working a charm, no issues at all. The Master Series troubles 
me as I cannot get any communication in truth with the floppy drive. It 
does a scan of the drive but wont let me format anything like it says in 
the book.

More on that no doubt.

scuzz


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