It has a delightful hat. Is this part of the domestication process?

Thanks again for another great read.

As other have already said look.after yourself first. I will look forward to your next update whenever it comes.

I wish you the best kind stranger.

Thanks for the mention of Chuckie Egg and Repton. I remember playing them on my Acorn Electron back many moons ago.

Good luck with your journey

Thanks again for the great read.

As a teen, on my zx81 I remember typing line after line of hex numbers.

If the rampack didn’t wobble and fail and I hadn’t missed a line or entered one twice then I’d play something new.

I must have saved the thing somehow, but I can’t remember…

In the UK there is a crazy band between £100k and £125k where for each two pounds above £100k you lose one pound from your personal allowance (personal allowance is £12.5k).

The effective tax rate for this is 60% then it carries on at the regular 40%

Always has struck me as odd.

Never paid this rate myself because I don’t get paid enough. Apparently it disincentives doctors from doing overtime.

Slowly going downhill?

I think it’s in freefall (but what would I know I don’t go there anymore)

It’s a precaution. If you were to damage the exposed battery it could cause it to heat up and probably catch fire.

You do no want a lithium battery fire in your house.

If you’re going to do it make sure you have enough time to do it all in one go so you don’t have to leave the back off.

It’s not a long task, I think setting the blank drive up afterwards took longer than the actual drive swap

Yes, well worth it.

I see all the important tips in the comments apart from doing it with a discharged battery.

I had no issues when I did mine.

I think they taunt you by shitting in your flowerbeds while you’re not looking.

Thanks for these posts, as others have said I took look forward to seeing them.

They’re a great read and serve as a useful reminder that there are other games apart from Factorio to play.

Sometimes if the bombers failed to find a target or if the got damaged by anit-aurcraft fire they would fly home and rather than land with a load of unexploded bombs on board they would drop them elsewhere. Maybe a field, maybe the sea…

I hope that cat is called Zorro

The UV light box was a separate device and not part of the Z88 itself.

you’d put the EPROM devices in it and let them cook for 20 minutes or so to clean them of previous data written to them.

Yes, but only to test it was functional.

It was just so cool that it had this built in and I guess it could be used to write a bit of code that could run and do some processing in Z80 whilst other bits could be in BASIC which was easier to use.

This was in the summer of 1988 and the company was on the east side of Cambridge (UK). It was Clive Sinclair’s new outfit after he’d sold the previous stuff to Amstrad. I think the new company was called Cambridge Computer Ltd.

I just had a holiday job doing testing of the OS it ran.

I think it has three slots at the front that can take a memory expansion. The memory being an EEPROM, maybe as large as 128Kb. Erasing them was done using a UV lamp (in a box).

It was a good bit of kit, but the screen space was too small to be of much use and it was overrun by the PC explosion that was coming.

Oh wow, what a blast from the past!

I worked on this device for a summer holiday job.

It had BBC BASIC and as it was Z80 based had an inbuilt assembly language compiler.

The adage is correct. Cat doesn’t fit, cat doesn’t sit

Factorio restarted again to celebrate the release of Space age.

I need reading glass (sigh I got old) With an analogue watch face I can work out the time, blurred lines can be seen. Cant read blurred numbers.