Well my Atari STE 520 was my first computer, along with the Turbo Pack and I've recently had it returned to me in working condition. Included a working hard disk (probably wasn't a good idea taking it apart to see if the power supply with it could be updated but not a massive lose either,) My 5 year old instantly showed an interest so would be good to keep it in a working state.
I'm still waiting for the all my floppy disks to be returned. But for the time being I've just received a gotek that I'm going to update with flash floppy.
Looks like they'll be a fair bit of work to do, like recapping the PSU. It's already got 2mb of RAM but only has 2 SIMM slots on it. There's a lot of things that would be nice to try modding on it.
Greetings from Kent, UK
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Collector of many retro things!
800XL and 65XE both with Ultimate1MB,VBXL/XE & PokeyMax, SIDE3, SDrive Max, 2x 1010 cassette, 2x 1050 one with Happy mod, 3x 2600 Jr, 7800 and Lynx II
Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
Plus the rest, totalling around 50 machines including a QL, 3x BBC Model B, Electron, Spectrums, ZX81 etc...
800XL and 65XE both with Ultimate1MB,VBXL/XE & PokeyMax, SIDE3, SDrive Max, 2x 1010 cassette, 2x 1050 one with Happy mod, 3x 2600 Jr, 7800 and Lynx II
Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
Plus the rest, totalling around 50 machines including a QL, 3x BBC Model B, Electron, Spectrums, ZX81 etc...
Re: Greetings from Kent, UK
Welcome on board!
Re: Greetings from Kent, UK
Well soldered some round pin sockets to my gotek as they were what I had laying around along with some jump connectors that'd fit in them.
Flashed the drive, plugged everything in and success.
I had to resort to using the RF output for display, my scart lead decided to stop working, no display and couldn't even hear the floppy drive seeking while booting. Guess I can't complain about a 30ish year old cable failing