Galleard

Progress report 1 I bought a suitable RGB to HDMI converter box, made up a cable, and plugged everything up. No smoke so that was good. Practically none of the keyboard keys worked at first, so it needed a liberal dose of switch cleaner in each key switch. After this they sort of worked, but there was a lot of key bounce. It may improve once the excess switch cleaner evaporates. Hardly surprising when the keyboard has not been used for ~35 years. Anyway it was enough for me to type in a very short BASIC program with FOR NEXT loop, with screen print out of iteration and some maths on it. So the computer and motherboard seem to be working OK. However my self made cable RGB to SCART is clearly not correct as I have no on screen colour output. So next task is to see if I can locate a pin assignment for this output, and maybe get a new connector cable made up.

I owned and still own a DAI 48K machine. Cost 595ukp + 15% VAT in February 1981. Purchased after extensive research at the time into home computers available on the market. Chosen due to its good graphics, proper keyboard. It was a quick machine compared to many, with a semi-compiled BASIC, though I moved on to 8080 assembler after a few months. Plugged it in over this last weekend, green motherboard power-on LED showed, so assume it still works. But do not have a suitable monitor for screen output. I now need a means of converting the RGB output from the DAI to HDMI into a modern TV. Still have a cassette tape with some programs on it, so would be fun to see them again. But will have to find a cassette player from somewhere. Not sure if I still own one.