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  10. Posted

    On 8/19/2020 at 1:25 PM, Machine said:

    Hey Gaz-

    When you get a chance, let me know what the shipping increase is and I will shoot over the difference.

    No sense in you eating all the costs, it really adds up when you start paying for everyone.

    Thanks

    Tom

    Same here!

     

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  11. Posted

    I've had good luck (knock on wood) with both PCBWay and JLCPCB. 

    One useful quirk of JLCPCB is they are associated with LCSC.  If you have a PCB order with JLC, then go over to LCSC for some components, they will give you a decent discount on faster shipping.

    On the down side, best pony up for DHL or fedex, or you will be waiting for a while on your boards.

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  15. Posted

    On 6/16/2020 at 7:08 PM, KLund1 said:

    Thanks.

     If I store any machine, I pull the batteries. If the batteries are in it while it is my 'office', I put a small sticky note on the back showing the date the batteries were installed.

    ^ THIS!!!!

     

    I can't count the number of old world Macs I've seen damaged/destroyed by leaking PRAM batteries.

     

  19. Posted

    4 hours ago, 82-T/A said:

    Haha... so, I've probably mentioned before, but I also own a Pontiac Fiero. It was my first car. A 1987 Pontiac Fiero SE / V6 which I've since converted to a 5-Speed manual (had an automatic). I've also rebuilt the engine a couple of times, and it gets bigger each time. Started out as a 2.8, now it's a 3.2 (3.1 crank and rods with .040 overbore). Anyway... when I bought the car in 1996, the car was still considered a very cool car. Pontiac had discontinued the car in 88 because of fires. But... it was still quicker, cooler, and nicer looking than 90% of the cars my friends had. Then... by the early to late 2000s... it started getting shit on constantly, just like you say. Some kid who's trying to start a YouTube channel makes a video about Fieros, goes way overboard. Now, in the 2020s... well, it's still a Pontiac Fiero, but they're far more sought after. Even really ratted out ones go for $3,500+ now.

     

    Aluminum block Caddy V8.... you won't be sorry =D

  22. Posted

    MiSTer is really nice, lots of active development on the base system, as well as the various cores.

    There are also periodic updates and new addon boards, the schematics are open source, so anyone with the needed skill can build boards.

     

    I've been building addon boards for almost a year now, you can find out more at the atari-forum thread, or visit my website at www.legacypixels.com/mister

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  23. Posted

    Uf. There is difference between 'abuse' because some just don't understand you + are even lazy to read whole threads, and 'shit' on someone - who repeatedly writes so wrong.

    25 pin SCSI ? Where is such ? Or "anyone had bad luck by dropping thier ST" ?

    So, by you we should not be ever sarcastic with people who just don't take care about what writes in some forum ? Computers are all about accuracy. Sorry that I'm professionally deformed. Or maybe I'm who is OK, and World is what became deformed. All that correctness, "be nice" leads where ? To some pseudo equality, where all we will be same, happy and so on. That's never gonna happen. Only that good and careful people will feel that their effort is not appreciated, and those who don't care for some level of their work, writings want same respect. No, respect should come for something done properly.

    Look that floppy thread: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/286419-difference-between-sf314-and-industry-standard-720k-drives/

    I gave detailed answer, with my WEBpage, what took time and effort to be made, including time for research, time to solve WP problem. And then what ? Following post: "The DS0 and DS1 jumpers, that's pretty much it."

    Sure, if you are shallow and never tested it little more, and see how can screw whole floppy content because Atari will not detect floppy change. Same like MugUks article at AF, where he tested BigDOS partition with only small data on it. All was OK, because did not go over 32 MB 'line' * after it, data corruption started with that driver and partition type. I wrote there about it, and he never corrected or removed his text.

    Thank you for your great help ... Maybe one day I will see some test done too ....

     

    Accurate for 720k drives. Can't speak to shoe-horning in a 1.44 as detailed, quite nicely, on the webpage.

    Cheers

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