Hehehe

As mentioned before, I was surprised how decent the Katsu at ~£50 was, except for the tips, but they're cheap to replace.

My Katsu soldering station puts the iron to sleep after a certain time in the holder, but takes about 10 seconds to get up to temperature. Given the whole thing was only about £50 all in (inc. hot air) I'm pretty impressed by it. Threw away the soldering bits and replaced them with ones from RS thou...

I really would like to get my hands on one of these. I know I have stated in the past that the spectrum hasn't aged well and that I have no intention of getting one, but I stupidly did recently and hate it. I would however really like one of these. All the bad bits have been improved massively. The...

I'm not sure about a review, I'll have to have a play after my Sun SPARCstation 1 finishes compiling the NetBSD kernel, which will probably be tomorrow. (The current version of GCC is *SLOW* and *BIG*. "Hello world" takes about 1.5 minutes to compile on this machine now, with about 20 seconds of tha...

My accelerated ZX Spectrum Next arrived!

Isn't it usual that the last digit is the scale factor? i.e. a 0 at the end denotes picofarad, a 1 would be x10, a 2 would be x100 etc.? So the 33 would be 3000 pF and the 50 5 pF.

Completely understandable.

It's not as if we don't have other things to tinker with (and break).

Wigs with pony tails are available...

You need a crystal clear case for the machine now.... and more LEDs.