Date   : Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:42:06 +0100
From   : philb@... (Phil Blundell)
Subject: Acorn World 2009 - Provisional Floor Layout

On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 07:55 +0100, Rob wrote:
> 2009/7/1 Dave Moore <dllm@...>:
> >
> > - the Repairs table (if anybody feels an urge to wave a soldering iron
around,
> > or should any Beeb PSUs go pop!)
> 
> If somebody wants to bring a supply of caps, I've got at least a
> couple of PSUs that already need attention, (slow/non-existent start
> ups, mainly) and am happy to contribute a few quid towards their
> fitting!

Yeah, I also have quite a collection of machines that need attention.
If the Repairs table needs more of a challenge then I have a currently
non-functional A540-prototype board (basically one and a half A680
motherboards) stashed away somewhere, which would be fun to have
working.  

> Ah, right, I found my very long econet cable the other day; it will be
> long enough to link the island to the outside edge, perhaps even in an
> "up and over" route, rather than across the floor - that daisy-chain
> of flyleads we had at Byte Back was not quite ideal..

With a bit of luck we should also have some functional econet/ethernet
bridges by September.  Mark has been doing a fine job recently with the
software for those.

p.