Improving Timex/Sinclair Tape Loading

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Lardo Boffin
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Re: Improving Timex/Sinclair Tape Loading

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Thanks Mark!

I will put a bunch of stuff in a box and send on Monday or Tuesday.

I have two each of the expensive bits (ICs and one of the caps) and hundreds of some of them... I have a bag of battery holders. :)

Its not a self build house - I’m reasonable at DIY but have limits! Imagine if I did the wiring... :|

I did manage to get a circuit to work today though! And it wasn’t as easy as you may think. Unless you can read Chinese... :roll:
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Switch it on and nodding T-rex!!! :D
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Received today...
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:lol:

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:lol:
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:D
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Lardo Boffin
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Stuff on its way to Mark and Sir Morris. Enjoy!
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TS 1000 iss 3, ZXPand AY and +, ZX8-CCB, ZX-KDLX & ChromaSCART
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Spectrum 16k (iss 1 s/n 862)
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Lardo Boffin wrote: Wed Feb 07, 2018 11:31 am Stuff on its way to Mark and Sir Morris. Enjoy!
@Lardo Boffin
Box of bits has arrived! :D

Thanks 8-)

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Re: Improving Timex/Sinclair Tape Loading

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1024MAK wrote: Sat Feb 10, 2018 2:53 am
Lardo Boffin wrote: Wed Feb 07, 2018 11:31 am Stuff on its way to Mark and Sir Morris. Enjoy!
@Lardo Boffin
Box of bits has arrived! :D

Thanks 8-)

Mark
You are welcome! I look forward to seeing where I went wrong - always good to learn by mistakes.
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TS 1000 iss 3, ZXPand AY and +, ZX8-CCB, ZX-KDLX & ChromaSCART
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Spectrum 16k (iss 1 s/n 862)
Spectrum 48ks plus a DIVMMC future and SPECTRA
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Re: Improving Timex/Sinclair Tape Loading

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I always learn from my mistakes. So I'm going to make a whole lot more tomorrow too.

Oh, in other news I just LOADed 3D Monster Maze from an original tape through the dubber.
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I never make mistakes. Once I thought I'd made a mistake, but it turned out I was wrong. :P

Seriously though, I'm glad to hear another dubber is on-line. Can't wait for Lardo to turn it loose on those "unrecoverable" tapes and see how many can be rescued.
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sirmorris wrote: Sat Feb 10, 2018 11:36 pm I always learn from my mistakes. So I'm going to make a whole lot more tomorrow too.

Oh, in other news I just LOADed 3D Monster Maze from an original tape through the dubber.
Excellent news!
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ZX81 iss 1 (bugged ROM, kludge fix, normal, rebuilt)
TS 1000 iss 3, ZXPand AY and +, ZX8-CCB, ZX-KDLX & ChromaSCART
Tatung 81 + Wespi
TS 1500 & 2000
Spectrum 16k (iss 1 s/n 862)
Spectrum 48ks plus a DIVMMC future and SPECTRA
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