Finding old gear

[Ashes]

I have been dusting off the Microbee collection I have had stored away for 20 years, and hope to post the collection as i go along.

[ChickenMan]

Ashes, welcome to the forum

Arr more surviving Microbees, fantastic, looking forward to seeing your collection.

[CheshireNoir]

It's always fun when somebody shows their collection off.
I particularly love seeing strange and unusual peripherals that people have accumulated. Lots of pictures please!

Chesh

[Ashes]

I think the count is 8 Microbees with an Acorn, and an Amstrad A500 in the dust as well. It appears most of the batteries were removed, but one found with a Varta battery which has done some damage. Worst part is my monitor I was going to use needs some TLC as the raster with no input appears cramped, so can't wait to put some video in to see what it looks like first.

[CheshireNoir]

Nice! I love seeing what people have in their collection.
What model Microbees are they?
I assume you mean Amiga A500?
What model Acorn do you have? (I've got 4 different Acorn models now. A BBC Master, an Electron, a BBC Master Compact and an Archimedes A440)

Cheers!

Chesh.

[Ashes]

Yes, the Amiga A500. Sorry, was typing late at night. The Acorn has no serial or model number, both places on the label are blank. I will work out how to attach pictures and see if the model can be worked out.

I have also found some drive cases, which look like they are from an SBC system, and a Computer in a Book box with a single drive.

Ashes

[ChickenMan]

"I will work out how to attach pictures and see if the model can be worked out."

Use the New Reply button at the top of the thread rather than the Quick Reply option at the bottom. Then you will see New Attachment at the bottom, then Choose file, Add Attachment and then Past into Post and it will go where your cursor is. There is a 600kb size limit on the file also.

[Ashes]

Sorry but I must be getting older. I only have Post, Preview and Save as options in the New Reply.

[ChickenMan]

Hmm.. I know of another member that has found the same problem he also had only made a few posts.  Currently we have 167 Registered Members and this is set
   
   

and at the bottom of a Post it should look like this

   

Maybe its time to upgrade.

[Ashes]

Thanks for the help with this, and I will persevere. The next thing will be to set up a new power supply as a test unit as my old cable / plug setup is looking a bit shakey. I realize how much I used to scrounge back then.

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The best thing I found in the boxes was the Eprom Programmer I made for the Microbee with multiple headers for different types of Eproms. The next thing will be to find the cassettes with the software I used. I do have a good operating cassette player at least.