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You just beat me to it - I don't have a hot plate for uniformly warming the PCB with but if you have a hot-air wand of the sort that you...

If I remember correctly the built in 'RS232' port on the +2 just uses two regular parallel I/O port pins (part of the sound chip?) so...

Assuming that's an SMPSU, the big RIFA could be part of the start-up chain* although they are more typically low value electrolytics in...

My then friend over the road had both a BBC B and an Amstrad CPC 6128 (CPC with a disk drive) - his family had a little bit more money...

I wasn't even aware that +128K upgrade existed - I own two Spectrums, my original 48K rubber-key specimen and also a Spectrum 128K+2...

Unfortunately that is what we Brits would consider to be a vast distance (hundreds of miles) away from me, sorry - had she been...

Verault, which area in the UK (roughly - which county?) is / was your wife due to be visiting? Not asking for door number / street name...

I'm wondering if the original 5-pin socket broke at some point in the unit's history and was replaced with what the repairer had handy...

Add to this, gadgets which insist you install a smartphone app in order to configure / connect them - smart speakers, smart house...

Looking in from the UK here - there are a quite a few retro computer people in the 'vintage computing' subsection of the UK Vintage...

Ta da :)! Workbench in all its glory! Well done. I can go for my evening walk now... Don't forget to leave me a few "likes" if you...

Mine has worked ever since it was repaired back in 1986 (... I shouldn't really jinx it by saying that, should I?) but that is something...

Forgot to add. When I bought my (seemingly identical) Philips CM8524 back in around 1986, I found that it did not work in RGB mode, only...

Bear in mind that Arn_K said in the initial post that while the 1081 does not work with his Amiga, it does work with his Nintendo so it...

My first question would be whether your lead / cable which works with the 1084 is wired for composite video only or for RGB and...