Recent content by Kai Robinson

Well, I went and did it - bagged a ThinkCentre Tiny - not the M920Q or M920X, but an M720Q - the deal was too good to pass up, at only £68 (!) albeit with only 8GB RAM and a Pentium Gold G5600T. But no matter, for £14 I grabbed a Core i3-8100T on eBay and from the e-waste at work, some more DDR4...

We have plenty of storage space, and the resources section. Also if anyone wants us to host larger items, archives of stuff, we can certainly discuss it.

Rob did a fantastic job of the clones. It's because of his work with the A500++ project that led me into learning sprint layout, and later the reloaded boards...

That's not good - plenty of SE power ups that didn't trip the electrics... Something tells me that the inrush current limiter is maybe faulty?

Things have taken a bit of a swerve - I never did get around to installing the P620 in the R520. One thing that's happened recently, is thanks to my work, from the legendary E-Waste bins, I picked up a Synology Rackstation RS3617xs+ - a 12 bay NAS with 10GbE (albeit RJ45). On top of that...

Mind if I move this to the 3D printing section?

Yeah sure, i'd love a similar solution for the SE - probably a little easier given the fact it's 1-bit video. I'm not a CRT Purist - as long as its functional and it looks the same - this can serve to save more machines that have duff analogue boards/failing flybacks, but good logic boards...

Yeah you can fix it, literally just need to remove the failed polariser layer, clean the panel and reapply a new polarising film. That being said, it's probably pretty easy to source a replacement panel, as there are only a handful of manufacturers - will probably be either LG, AUO, Samsung...

Because.... Why not? 😂

Just wanted to weigh in here, with regards to anyone thinking of posting here as an alternative, please see our infrastructure overview to get an idea of how TD is setup as a site and what we have in place on the back end. https://tinkerdifferent.com/threads/infrastructure-overview-2021.670/

Looks to be an MFM drive. I'd bet that you're right @JDW in that the drive needs to be low level formatted first.

I'd love to see the end results!

The pdf is in the resource section.

DosFox on the TD discord reverse engineered the SND chip, check there, the schematics and gerbers may be open source.

Would help to know where you're based - due to tarriffs putting the kibosh on international shipping right now, makes sense to recommend services as local as possible.