Date   : Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:10:09 +0000
From   : zeem.uk@... (Alex Taylor)
Subject: Leicester RCM Show (RM Nimbuses)

My Nimbuses used a 5-pin DIN keyboard, which I never tested in
anything else, as it looked like it might be an AT or XT keyboard but
might have been completely different and shorted out whatever I
plugged it into. Rather like an Amiga 2000 also uses a 5-pin DIN but
is completely different.

Mine also had standard 720K floppy drives - I ran all three in a
DOS-based PC to check they worked, which they did. I nearly pulled
them out for spares but decided to leave them in, as the winning eBay
bidder would have probably wanted them for the same reason.

They came with two Philips green-screen Computer Monitor 80s, without
a cable, which I had to make up just to test the machines. They both
had the boot screen quite badly burned into them. One of them had been
stored so badly that the power switch had completely rusted off its
mountings and fallen inside. I removed it completely and jumpered the
switch connections on the PCB with a bit of wire, and it worked OK.
Not too much of a problem, given that the machines had a switched AC
outlet for the monitor on the back of the PSU.

I also seem to remember various configurations for the networking -
some built-in to the board, some added on. None of the three machines
was the same as any of the others, for some reason.

-- 
Alex Taylor