[Wolves] Ideas for disposal of old Computers

Stephen Parkes sparkes at westmids.biz
Mon May 25 16:44:56 UTC 2009


On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 16:50 +0100, Re-LoaD wrote:
> Mike Hingley wrote:

> > I have an old dragon 32 - which was my first computer.  But the wife
> > seems keen to get rid of it.  I'm resigned to the fact that it will have
> > to go, but I am unsure of the best thing to do with it, or whether there
> > is any value (not monetary but historical) to the thing.
> > 
> I would give it a loving home in my growing collection of retro computers...
> 
> I just changed the 5v reg in my zx81 lol... gonna repair a pocket tv 
> with 3cm screen next so i can use it ....

Those buggers are always going it was one of my first electronics
projects replacing it in my 48k speccy.  

I modded a ZX81 (long lost but an original one is around the house
somewhere) to have an external heatsink like the 128k spectrums which
solved loads of problems but meant I kept burning my arm :)

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