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During my loft digging I dug out an old Retro computer that's not seen the light of day for 30 years. A Transam Tuscan s100, using a Z-80, sold as a kit of parts in 1980. I was given it assembled by a manager when I was a young apprentice, I had it working back then, but its not been powered in over...

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Managed to find some of the old manuals, so answered my own questions. TTK and TK2 for the roms. So happy that DIR now scroll locks, was driving me potty

Don't worry it was removed in my first post. I'm waiting on a daughter board to mount it away from the main pcb. I checked the old battery, no date code, just "Varta Mempac 3.6v 100mA" and stamped "Made in England" on the base, are they still made in the UK ?. It doesn't seem to ...

The batteries start leaking because of a chemical process. When discharged, the contents expand compared to new state. Containing a paste with a liquid electrolyte, the electrolyte is the only thing that can move and is forced out. Even if you see no signs of leakage, there can still be some electr...

Hi all, While digging out my Thor 20 I found a few of my old disks, and just a few of my micro drives (I never had lots, maybe 20, but they seem to have disappeared mostly over the years), nothing interesting on the MD's just two copies of GST's assembler cased and a copy of ICE in a cassette case. ...

A few screen shots as it doesn't seem to allow me to post more than 5 photos in a single post.

Hello, New member here, can't really class myself as a QL collector, but owned a Thor for 30+ years, used it in the early 90's then stored it away in a cupboard. I powered it up maybe 20 years ago and it had issues with the keyboard so I stored it again and forgot about it. I would periodically look...