Following on from my last blog where I explain the importance
to me of keeping the kit active I today ventured down the rabbit
hole and produced the following pictures for you. Date 18th April 2017.
When looking at these images I am reminded of an incident that
happened during a meeting I once attended. We kinda got side-tracked
when one or two of those attending asked me about the collection.
I was more than happy to discuss and in little time the majority
of those attending were intrigued and asked more about what I
did. The chairman became perplexed somewhat and getting ever more
annoyed at the interest being shown jumped to his feet and shouted
' It's all junk.... It's all bloody junk '.
He was probably right.
If you haven't already read the first blog in this series then here is the link
Entry 1701: Blogs: 1 scuzzblog 17th April 2017
Subject 01: Retro Mania: Staying Alive
Scuzz's Rabbit Hole
This month I have been mostly mending 3" drives in Amstrads. Those rubber
drive belts tend to perish and die and so its been quite a challenge getting
the drives working on DD1s, 6128s, 6128Plus and my treasured 9512 which I
managed to bring back to life. Also repaired the +3 and hooked up the Einstein
which all use the 3" disk
The other event of the month was the death of the Win7 machine which took out
the hard drive and burned out the NVIDIA. In a fit of stupidity I bought a new
Dell Win10 machine which seriously is the biggest load of junk I have ever used
Windows 10 is just a glorified mobile phone interface and the computer is just
a browsing tool. I just had to get the Win7 machine working again and you will
see from the images that I was successful. Can't have a computer not working
Anyway you can judge from the images that I'm bat crap bonkers, something I am
quite happy to admit... But hey I enjoy myself so what does it matter
Below is a previous couple of images of the Amiga Sanctuary which is yet another
area of the house dedicated to the Amiga. I have two Amigas in the room I am currently in
and have various other machines like Acorns, Falcon, Atom and various games machines that
are not featured. I do also live in the house, but that is secondary to the computers
How many Amigas
The answer is that there are six Amigas set up in the Sanctuary
