Back from Leamington Spa with the QL, books and magazines. The QL mostly works. It has a power-on reset issue, probably a tired capacitor near the heatsink, and the keyboard membrane leads had cracked and torn. Trimmed the keyboard leads, added "Magic Tape" reinforcements on the backs and ...

I'm sure there are a number of MIDI people here.

The person on the Facebook Apricot group didn't say precisely.

244s are always iffy.

There's an Apricot XI available in Norfolk for free, but it's a bit too far.

Thanks!

I'm off to Leamington Spa in a bit to rescue a QL and a whole load of magazines and books.

I hope it's a simple fix. I guess that there's a whole load of buzzing out traces in your future.

Actually, 4.8KHz is best, that's 300 Baud.

Well, well, well... Retrieved my Owon pocket oscilloscope from work and used the signal generator... Firstly instead of the crystal, no go. The WD8116 chip is definitely dead. IMG_3583.jpeg Hooked it up instead of the 8116 output, going to the Z80 SIO port clock input... Nothing, not even bad charac...

If it's the crystal then I'll have to get that from Mouser as none of the UK suppliers stock 5.0688MHz ones. Anyway, I'll retrieve the Owon oscilloscope from work as that has a signal generator. I can't remember if it goes up to 5MHz or not. Anyway, I should get some life out of the chip if it's the...