Date   : Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:01:09 +0000
From   : rs423@... (Mick Champion)
Subject: Quine

Rick Murray wrote:
> Mick Champion wrote:
>
>   
>> I have the real thing all wired up and ready to burrr-beep.
>>     
>
> :-) Yes, I noticed BeebEm doesn't burrr-beep pleasingly. It's more a 
> br-beep.
>   
Mine goes kerr-clunk. (The cassette motor relay)



>
>   
>> Except it doesn't as the keyboard died on me and have swapped in a
>>     
>  > keyboard with no speaker.
>
> Wasn't it just held on with a foamy-sticky thing?
>   
The keyboard I swapped out the grill is screwed on, the one I swapped in 
was double sided stick foam. Trouble is, speaker is hard wired into a 
volume pot on the machine it came from. I will get around to getting my 
speaker back or try to fix the keyboard. It works for about 5 minutes 
then it doesn't. Sometimes keys put out the wrong letters, or nothing at 
all. It's only 4 caps and 4 chips so I'll replace the caps. I may 
already have the ceramics here already, but guess it will be the 
electrolytic.



>
>   
>> Crumbs! The BEEB power supply has just filled my room with toxic white smoke!
>>     
>
> "Crumbs!"? That's your response?!? :-) D'you have any idea what mom 
> would say if one of my PSUs did that?!
>   
As I said, I was expecting it to happen one day from the posts on this 
list. I did say words with a stronger tone, but that was because it 
meant I had more jobs to do, rather than any sort of fear. Fore warned 
is four foot as they say? As predcted, the beast fired up (minus smoke) 
happily this morning no problem.



>
>   
>> Cor what a stink!!!!!!!
>>     
>
> Dead capacitor?
Definately.



>
>  > Do say i should have been using an emulator !!!!!
>
> Errr... just so long as BeebEm doesn't have exploding PSUs as an 
> accurate hardware emulation option! :-)
>   
I did use PCBBC by Stuart Maconie... Oh hang on. Maybe that's not the 
chaps name. Stuart Maconie does the Freak Zone on BBC 6 music..  It was 
something like that name anyhow. I'm afraid to say, I preferred the real 
thing. Not that the program was bad, you understand. I just like the BBC 
better.



>
>>> we'll get to cut'n'paste from email to emulator!
>>>       
>> Where's the fun in that
>>     
>
> You only need to write the code once?
>   
You can do that with a real BEEB. I just haven't got around to it yet. I 
was hard wired into my old PC, but not anymore. Okay, I needed to open a 
terminal on the BEEB and dozePC to transfer, but it work very well.



Mick.