Most liked posts in thread: Some old toys finally recovered

Thanks for the warning about the batteries on the mobo's @Graham , I didn't even notice before you mentioned it, but looking again at the photos myself (the parts are once again boxed up until I can sort them) it looks like at least one battery has already started leaking on one of the boards and I'll have to get them cleaned up asap and repair any damage to traces there, if it's to late to clean them off and save them!

Thanks for the kind words @Andy Barr

 

Some fascinating and much-loved kit there, Matt, which must bring back so many really good memories for you from your heydays.
So glad it escaped the heist (hope the barstewards responsible for that despicable act rot in retro hell) and you're now able to go through it all, bring some of it back to life and put back into operation enriching your man cave current set-up and also raise a few readies to finance future 8bit enrichment... what goes around comes around and you deserve plenty of good stuff to come from future sales, mate.

 

Nice little treasure trove there Matt, the trainer, is it a Heathkit one?

 

Hi Matt
Looks like you have found some nice items hidden away their, A word of caution, I've seen at least two M/B's that have the old style Ni-Cd batteries, as these will at some point leak a strong Alkali on the board it maybe best to remove them. usually easy to find the bleeder resistor to charge these remove that and use a coin cell holder with a 2032 or similar, if they do leak they can wreck the board by disolving the tracks and worse the via's
I look forward to seeing the items listed at some point, and may well be up for a purchase or maybe a swap, maybe that BBC 'B' could be yours. if you have a black faced 1.2MByte IBM drive please reserve that for me if it's something your willing to sell