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L/+Boar1
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| Filename: | L/+Boar1 |
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| File size: | 117E bytes |
| Load address: | 2B204556 |
| Exec address: | 72616F42 |
File contents
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LETTER 17
Tony Boarer 214 Dunraven Drive Derriford Plymouth PL6 6AZ 01752 771276
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24th.May,1997
Dear Gus,
My best of intentions not achieved once again! Blown off course by two
main things. Firstly, my main electron computer system failed in that
I could obtain the disk drive although *ROMS and CLICK both showed the
DFS ROM active. After a lot fiddling about with differing
configurations of ADDONS, I eventually pinned the cause down to the
SLOGGER PLUS2. I assume that some of the circuit lines that run
straight across the PLUS2 from the electron to the PLUS1 or ROMBOX+
are not transmitting signals as they should. This is as far as I have
got with the state that my hands are in at present. Secondly, the
Neurosurgeon dealing with my brain tumour decided that I should have a
course of radio therapy which eventually turned out to be an intensive
6 weeks which ended earliar this month and the side effects have
knocked me about a little - hence my mention of hands above for the
therapy has had some effect on the other side of my brain as well.
Actually, the technical and medical side of this therapy is quite
interesting and I will cover it in my main article mentioned in my
last letter - hopefully for EUG33.
I see from last week's FT WEEKEND that the year 2000 problem has hit
an American insurance firm already. Apparently this firm operate a
computer program that searches for and deletes inactive files. The
method used was to add 5 years to the last time the file was used and
if certain conditions were met then the file would be deleted.
Presumably, if addiing 5 produced a number greater than the current
year then the computer would take no action. However, when 5 was added
to 1995 the computer assumed such files had been inactive from 1900
and promptly deleted 600 files!
A side effect of radio therapy is that it makes one extremely tired
and consequently my time with my computer set-up has been greatly
curtailed - I am struggling just to keep my financial data bank up to
date and last evening I switched on my other computers for the first
time since the event just before Christmas only to find that I have no
DFS in the BBC INTEGRA-B - I have a feeling that it was in one of the
BBRAM pages. Something else to sort out in due course! I'll have read
the manual, but the IBOS ROM has sideways RAM commands.
However, from memory I think the version of DFS in this BBC was 2.26,
the same as the actual ROM in my other BBC with an Issue 7 board, but
this latter does not have any ROM image facility. The DFS version in
the electron I am now using is 2.20, but I am not sure whether the
INTEGRA-B needs 2.26 - any idea? I could put in a ROM image and see
if it works. It will not work with the SLOGGER DFS for I have tried it
before out of interest.
In order to get VIEW at the moment I am down to this electron with
just a PLUS1 fitted - the VIEW is held in a ROM256 cartridge - and so
I have to swop with CLICK when otherwise using the computer to keep
the latter charged up, which is more nuisance value.
I am thinking of cleaning the fingers of the SLOGGER PLUS2 with
acetone and then reassembling using peg board to maintain position for
originally the PLUS2 was designed to go between an electron and a
ROMBOX+ in a RX case which would have stopped any waggle, which I
think is part of the current problem.
I STOPPED USING MY PLUS2 AFTER EXPERIENCING THE SAME PROBLEMS AS YOU.
WHILE THE PLUS2 IS AN EXCELLENT PIECE OF KIT BEING UNCASED IT IS
SUSEPTABLE TO ANY PARTICLES WHICH MIGHT BE FLOATING AROUND IN THE AIR
SHORTING TRACKS. I DID TRY TO MAKE A CASE FOR IT ONCE OUT OF CARD AND
THIS WORKED WELL UNTIL IT WAS CRUSHED BY AN INADVERTANTLY PLACED DISC
DRIVE.
SINCE SOME OF THESE ARIBORNE PARTICLES CAN BE QUITE STICKY THE WHOLE
BOARD SHOULD BE CAREFULLY CLEANED. A SWITCH CLEANER SHOULD DO THE
TRICK BUT KEEP IT AWAY FROM KEYBOARD SWITCHES, THEY TEND TO BE RUINED
BY THIS STUFF.
ONE OTHER POINT WHICH SPRINGS TO MIND IS THE EXTRAS, USER PORT, RS423
AND SUCH. CHECK THESE AS WELL.
INTERESTING WHAT YOU SAY ABOUT THE AMERICAN COMPUTER COMPANY, BET
THERE WERE A FEW HANDFULLS OF HAIR FLOATING ABOUT WHEN THAT BECAME
OBVIOUS.
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