Date   : Tue, 16 Aug 2011 18:09:08 +0200
From   : rick@... (Rick Murray)
Subject: Advice on restoring a dead Beeb?

On 14/08/2011 22:37, Chris Reece wrote:

> noise and the best I could do was a black and white (yeah!)
> barbershop pole type display.  More black than white, could have been
> a flash cursor.  Or next week's winning lottery numbers, who knows.

;-)  NZ and UK both use PAL. So long as it is a UHF TV (not VHF), it 
*should* work.
If you have an AGC/gain/tuning lock button, try turning it off.

Or, as others have suggested, hook up to the composite video connection 
and try that. You might be able to jack it into the back of a VCR?


> http://jessies.org/~car/misc/20110815-bbcmicro/IMG_0994.jpg

Jessies?

Anyway, sorry, the picture is too low-res to read what it says on the ROMs.

Something I "discovered" when younger was that a magnifying lens in 
tandem with a fixed-focus camera could be a cheap'n'cheerful macro lens.


> they must be MOS and BASIC, no?

Yup.


> And getting "further" by flashing lights diagnosis, I assumed that
> they're now in the right order.

I'd imagine so, as the addressing works differently so the MOS would 
only work in the MOS's slot.


Best wishes,

Rick.

-- 
Rick Murray, eeePC901 & ADSL WiFI'd into it, all ETLAs!
BBC B: DNFS, 2 x 5.25" floppies, EPROM prog, Acorn TTX
E01S FileStore, A3000/A5000/RiscPC/various PCs/blahblah...