Last week’s revelation that a capacitor in the floppy circuit of the Sanyo MBC555 was installed incorrectly made me dig out one of mine. Here’s the offending cap (C9), spot the accidental mistake!

Using the Computer History Museum’s running IBM 1401 data processing system (1959) as a template, “6502b” created this amazingly detailed scale model.

I can’t believe our very own trustworthy BBC gave this credence this morning, with Rory Cellan-Jones asking ‘does it work?’ 🤣 *adds to list of ‘utter woo’* PS if anyone believes in this then I’ve got a bridge to sell you.