Abandoned BBC Micro: PART 1

I saved this BBC Micro from the rain and the cold.
Watch this part 1, hopefully I can restore it to its former glory ! 💪🏻
Happy watching

[@stanneh1978]

You did a great job of cleaning that up it looks like a different machine.

[@mikeh_nz]

Nice - north west corner of the board is the optional chips to allow the computer to be networked on a lan (usually a school lan) - it was called econet. I can see that the chips set for allowing the computer to use floppy disk drives is installed The corrosion around the links (S21) and the keyboard connector is a little concerning. Take some photos of the link positions and I would remove the links and clean them and the keyboard connector with Deoxit or similar - the symptoms you’re seeing are similar to the keyboard being disconnected The main chips have date codes on them of the form YYWW (eg 8423 would be 23rd week of 1984) so you can have a look and probably tell roughly when the computer is made

[@RetroSaviour]

Epic yess I did find the date in a later video from 1984 😄😄😄ok will check out what you said thank you

[@roysigurdkarlsbakk3842]

nice - but can you please try to keep the video horizontal? it's a PITA watcing something flicker between horizontal and vertical! Btw, a wee tip - if you start off with blowing the dust away with high pressure air (from a compressor or can or whatever), you really save a lot of time :) Also - please keep the music volume at the same as the speech - it's late now and I need to adjust the volume all the time

[@RetroSaviour]

@@roysigurdkarlsbakk3842 yes it’s a shame and I did try to avoid that 👍 thanks for stopping by 😄silly iphone and me not being able to work is properly 😂

[@RetroSaviour]

@@roysigurdkarlsbakk3842 yes the total editing is tricky because I do it all on my phone but will try 👍

[@roysigurdkarlsbakk3842]

@@RetroSaviour Just keep up the good work :)

[@stanneh1978]

Be cool to get it booting for its 40th birthday this Nov.

[@RetroSaviour]

@@stanneh1978 yesss I reckon it will hopefully be working by then 😄😄 a new power circuit perhaps see what it looks like in a few days 🙌