Another update on the Ace pages courtesy of Tony Duell, who also happens to be the bloke who helps me fix dead machines.....cheers Tony!

Finally got round to looking at the Jupiter Ace demo tape kindly provided by Dan (I only got it a year ago), and also updated the Ace pages with a bit more info and demo pix.

Boxed Sord M5 Starter Kit arrives in excellent condition (apart from the outer box being a little foxed, but never mind :) Nice little machine for its day. Pity the company, well, vanished owing to 'mysterious forces.'

New scans of recently dug-out Camputers Lynx brochures can be found in the Adverts section. Also, another mostly boxed MTX500 gets added to the Memotech page, and it WORKS!

Did you collect 'Crash', 'ZZap64', 'C&VG', 'Your Computer', 'Sinclair User' etc? David Tolley's got just the site for you!

Several adverts added, plus a lot more magazine gubbins about the STM Pied Piper.....

Rich over at DragonData has a couple of scoops you'll definitely be interested in if you're interested in the little Welsh company's prototypes......

STM Pied Pipers are obviously like London buses - wait for 1 for years then 6 come along at once, all donated (with extras) by Jeremy Wilcox, and all in various states of completeness! Thanks Jeremy. He's interested to know if anyone would like his Xerox 820 workstation.....

Not a bad couple of weeks - courtesy of a yard sale in the US comes 6 Tiger handhelds, all working, plus an Apple Newton Messagepad 2000 and an RM Link 480Z from Swindon correspondent and Mr.Dragondata.co.uk Rich Harding. The 480Z needs some work though, possibly bad memory, but pix of the rest are up.

Now here's something to be impressed with. Courtesy of Zdenek in Czechoslovakia comes not 1 but 2 brand new boxed Enterprises (64 and 128), 2 disk controllers, 2 printer cables, 2 joystick converters, 2 video cables and a whole bundle of software :o)) I'm not chuffed at all! Woo!

Search feature seems to be stable now - it's over there in the control panel!

Added the extra pix of the Coleco Adam from Rich Beaudry; I didn't realise how much software there was.

Spectrum 128K (toastrack) unpopulated motherboard arrives; it's a bit odd seeing it unpopulated to be honest :)

Latest bits from Greenweld arrive - all Microprofessor related and all unopened - memory expansion, FORTH ROM and VIP-I/88 ROM, an IBM CGA character generator.

Prepping for when I get a Lisa 2/10 :) Unopened Widget boards arrive for spares.....

New Lisa 1 pix courtesy of John Woodall. Anyone got one like this they want to sell me? :)

For no reason other than 'I can' I've installed a smart new guestbook

Spoke to my old Physics teacher tonight and sadly the ZX80 that started me on the computing career bit the dust many years ago. Pity, but that's what happens.

Woo! The rest of my trade with Rich Beaudry arrives - the Coleco Adam printer, joysticks, books, tapes and other stuff to keep the Adam going. Most excellent!

Apologies for anyone getting a break in their connections - discovered a wiring fault in the computer room that meant unplanned downtime. Have to get a UPS :o)

Well populated boot sale results in an Apple Mac Centris 650 for a quid and a boxed Amstrad CPC6128 - first boxed one I've seen in over 3 years collecting. Looking at the box it's no wonder people chucked 'em :)

I'm slightly chuffed. Got another Vectrex board that had had 'surgery', resulting in no RAM chips and some missing tracks so a bit of wire-wrap wire, a pair of sockets and the schematic results in a fully working Vectrex - that's the most complex board-level repair I've done up to now! Woo and yay to me, and thanks to Tony Duell for the inspiration.

PET2001 is working again after I find someone in the US still selling 2114 RAM chips, so now I've got enough to fix all my dead kit :)
Oh, and it's my birthday tomorrow, so happy birthday to me!

Excellent donation from Colin Hogben arrives - no less than 3 EACA Genie derivatives - a boxed Video Genie, Microdigital EG3003 and another Genie I. Also in the bundle is a disk interface and floppy drive, TRS80 LDOS, printer, printer interface and other bits and bobs. Cheers Colin!

Most excellent trade with Rich Beaudry results in 2 Coleco ADAMs, one working and one not. Just pix up for now 'cos there's still a boxful of stuff coming over the pond. Cheers Rich!

Lonely Radofin TeleGames 'Mentor' pong is found for a couple of quid :)
The best condition Lisa 1 I've ever seen appears on ebay and the seller, AdamG, has given me permission to reproduce the pictures here. Ta Adam!

Handheld bonanza - Tandy 'Ogre Eater', Bandai 'Gunfight', Grandstand 'Scramble' and old Grandstand 2000 pong added to their respective sections.

Woo! If you can read this then you're sitting on the new server 3 feet to the right of my legs! Hopefully it's all working smart......
Moochos to Kevan for hosting me all this time - star man and no mistake :)

Much swearing and gnashing of teeth results in a new machine for me and a new server for the home network.....grrrrrr bloody MSI motherboards......plus, I've had to go back to m$ products for my desktop now 'cos I was missing Photoshop and Dreamweaver too much. Still, the server is running Linux so at least it won't keep falling over in a heap.
Recent finds: Winthronics Pong and more games for the Acetronic MPU1000, unfortunately they came with another MPU1000, so now I've got 4.....

My 2nd Vectrex arrives, supposedly bust, but it works better than my working one!
Also, courtesy of a local college on a clearout comes a pristine Digital VAX 4000-500 - nice machine!

I've been asked about this before but wasn't sure whether it was worth it, then we found some (alledgedly) copyright-free images in a clearout so I thought 'why not'.....see above for 4 ideas for either tees, mousemats or postcards, all done in 'humourous' <cough> Victorian postcard fashion. Clicky for a bigger version.
Let me know if you're interested!

32 unopened Atari games arrive from O'Shea Ltd across the pond. 18 7800 carts and 14 2600 carts. They've still got 1 or 2 (hundred thousand) left :) Them limestone caverns are rather large.

VECTREX :o)

Boxed Atari 65XE arrives with a load of games - a combo pack featuring the machine, joystick and boxed XC12 tape deck. Outer box is battered but everything else is in excellent nick, aside from the machine itself which looks like it's been the victim of spillage most foul.

Noticed a font rendering problem in Netscape so I've fixed that and also updated loads of pages in the Commodore corner and fixed the style sheet. Hopefully :)
First boot sale of the year results in a lonely Amstrad PCW10, and Bo's sent over the software he had for the C65 - cheers!

*mega bounce*....my Commodore 65 arrives from Bo Zimmerman! Get over to the page now, you know you want to!

Magnavox Odyssey 300 pong arrives, complete with Conic TVG101-4 Grandstand-u-like pong....

What a week! Had an excellent time with John & Kate Grant, aka Nine Tiles - amongst other things creators of the ROMs for the ZX80, ZX81, some of the Spectrum firmware and bits of the Grundy Newbrain. More news to come later. Suffice to say if it wasn't for the ZX80 I wouldn't be here doing this now.
2 unopened Prism VTX5000 modems arrive courtesy of Brian Gaff, who still has several left.
DISC Company "Image" genlock for the CDTV arrives too, boxed in mint condition. All I have to do now is learn Dutch so I can read the manual :o)

Unopened boxed Tandy CoCo3's arrive with unopened tape deck; sorry, 'datacorder'. Thanks Ken & Janet! They have one or two spare as well.
Merlin arrives, in its box with instructions, no polys. However, this one DOES have the all important battery cover that plagues others I've seen, and it works nicely! "Twenty unique sounds!" Ok, it beeps.

Apologies for the speed! After I was mentioned on silicon.com the server got thrashed, so I've been limited a bit. Stick with it and it'll come in eventually.....

PET 2001 is alive too now that I've traced its fault to bad video RAM - thanks Tony! I'm being plagued by bad 2114 chips here! More pix uploaded of the PET and the BT Merlin Tonto. Also had a photo reduction exercise and made some of the bigger images into thumbnails for faster page loading 'cos I'm *that* nice....hehe.
I've also checked every link, corrected every typo, found every missing picture, eaten all me tea and pulled me socks up :)

The cased UK101 is working too - bad RAM on that one, so if anyone has any spare 2114 1K*4 RAM chips I'd be a grateful recipient :)

Happy day - got my naked Compukit UK101 running perfectly and I'm well on the way to sorting out the 2nd cased one. Also got some pix up of the Simon and BT Merlin Tonto.....

My Apple Lisa schematics arrive complete with a free iMac poster :o)