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robhague, to retrocomputing
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Hi Fedi — I have a question. I recently acquired a couple of classics, a ZX81 and an Atari 2600 (both PAL). However, I've not been able to get them going, for the simple reason that the analogue tuner in my (relatively) modern TV can't pick up the RF signal.

While composite video mods are readily available for both, and I'll probably opt for that long term, I'd like to get them working in their original condition. Any suggestions? Would a simple RF amplifier help?

penguin42,
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@robhague An amp would be odd; when it's on a piece of wire >--< far away there should be plenty of signal.

robhague, to random
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One final post for with a little bit of personal history:
https://rob.rho.org.uk/2024/03/marchintosh_the_end.html

robhague, to retrocomputing
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Extelec,
@Extelec@mstdn.social avatar

@robhague Triangular IS the way foward.

uliwitness,
@uliwitness@chaos.social avatar

@robhague The way I was taught, that's why we had “disc” and "disk”. “disc” were circles (like CDs), and “disks” were storage media.

robhague, to mechanicalkeyboards
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Finally got round to posting an up-to-date writeup of my (somewhat esoteric) keyboard layout, incorporating all of the tweaks I've made over the last year and a bit of using minimal split keyboards full-time.

https://rob.rho.org.uk/2023/10/layout_evolution.html

Wyatt,
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@robhague
@amin

robhague, to mechanicalkeyboards
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I made another keyboard, although I might not be adopting this as a daily driver: https://rob.rho.org.uk/2023/08/onepercent.html

AAMfP,
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@robhague
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