ScuzzBlog: Diaries January 2024 Entry 9th January 2024: Post 1: Acorn 5000 - Take 2024 and hanging by a thread. Acorn 5000 - Take 2024 and hanging by a thread. Just 10 degrees C on the bench today and not a good day to be up by the tripod. I couldn't resist having a peek into the Acorn 5000 following yesterdays retrospective. I hadn't realised it had been over five years since I removed the battery. I added a few pictures from November 2018. The components are very small and in truth are pretty much in the same state as they were when I removed the battery. Maybe a little more of the corrosion here and there. The components that surround the removed battery are literally hanging on by a thread. They really need de-soldering from the board and replacing. Sadly beyond my skills. I removed what corrosion I could back in November 2018, but I fear any further aggressive cleaning will wipe what is left from the board. I had decided last year to glass case this machine and never use in anger again, but I simply couldn't resist today. So I braved the cold and had a go. I have one dodgy keyboard amongst the two I have and I must have used the bad one to start with. I swapped them over and at first the machine refused to get past the second cyan rectangle. I then ran my hand a few times over the whole keyboard to make sure one of the keys wasn't sticking and like magic the red flashing third rectangle appeared and then I was in the console and the machine beeped, the floppy fired up and I was in. Idiot me forgot the mouse so had to do the whole thing again. Next I had to configure the IDE hard drive again as their is no CMOS battery retaining the drive configs. This I did and soon I had the hard drive appearing at the bottom of the screen. She really is a trooper this machine. I really should give the inside a good clean, but I resist cus if it aint broke. She cannot survive much longer I would have thought. Those components have no right to be still working, if indeed they do. Poor girl needs to go to a good home where she can be lovingly restored. Makes me quite sad. That aside I took some pretty atrocious pictures. I do sense the camera also has come to the end of its life cycle. The images from the monitor are always tricky cus what you can't see is a bloody great red black edged scan line filling the screen that the camera does its best to ignore. Anyway I sound like I am complaining. Far from it. Pictures aside I was more than warmed by the sight of my Acorn 5000 working like a charm. Certainly one of my favourites. My struggle now will be resisting firing her up again. So difficult. As ever .. happy days. Even at ten degrees. I do like the cold. Acorn 5000 - Take 2024 and hanging by a thread.

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