Just a lowly Toshiba for me in the mid-80s.

I take it that you've washed the board thoroughly in IPA to flush out any conductive, oxidised flux?

Yeah, the 5 yearly building shutdown for electrical testing was always a worry when I was at work... we had some nearly 20 year old spinning disks...

Though it always seemed to be the newer equipment which would suffer PSU failures.

Surely that means that there was a hidden configuration or failure mode which this test has highlighted and could have happened outside of scheduled maintenance at a more critical time?

Spoiler… Starts with a Z and ends in 1

Of course, some of the UFO episodes are incredibly silly and look to have been written by someone on drugs.

"The Cloud" == "Other people's computers"

You off-load your own hardware costs at the cost of losing control and accountability... and your business is depending upon the reliability of the wet string into your premises.

Indeed, it was going to be UFO series 2 originally.

Given the complex NTSC -> PAL conversion circuit I'd start looking at the graphics chip output and then work from there and see where the signal stops.

Yep, here’s my spect with two microdrives (with my Memotech) in 1985.

I used the set-up with Tasword II to write all my essays during the first two years of my degree.

So, are you going to flush that with IPA as well, just in case?

The only use case I can see for this being useful would be for a parent showing the same children's programmes to their toddler day after day after day after day.

I'm sure a studio could jazz it up a bit with a "Hackers" vibe and a bedroom scene or two.

Campbell House terminal room had its fair share of love triangles, even if it was peripheral to those using the GUEST account.

Oh and comic relief from finalist CS students who don't know how to log in.

They don't even all have blue keys.

So, about half that of the petition asking for a referendum on the final Brexit plan.

It will have about the same effect I fear.

It's the availability and price of the bones which is the issue.

I'm not sure you can actually build the original any more seeing as it uses an ancient BeagleBone board as its brains. Extremely expensive as well.

Could do with a 3.5" version for the Apricot as well.