Repairing an Oric-1

[@cocusar]

The outros are killing it! Excellent video Andy! Great restoration of this retro computer.

[@driftwood9421]

A pint of dark Northern beer and an hour of Doz TV, perfect for a stormy Saturday. Cheers Andy another blast from our repair past. My first was a Microtan Tangerine built from a diy kit running assembler on a hex keyboard. Funny, I can still remember the thrill of coding on a black and white telly rushing to bash out the bugs before the long suffering wife wanted it for coronation street. You did us all a good favour there conjuring up good past memories from a simpler time. Thanks.

[@alan_wheredidiputit]

I see what you're doing! It's Doz, AKA Jack Hues :D I like a bit of Wang Chung too! ;)

[@AndyDoz]

That's actually the Wang computers logo ...

[@alan_wheredidiputit]

@@AndyDoz Doh, my bad :S I thought with the logo and then the playout song which to my ears at least sounded very Wang Chung it all added together. Sometimes 2 + 2 really doesn't come to anymore than 4 :D

[@adamdavies163]

I recently had a failed bass unit in a Naim Muso speaker. Same as yours, measured open circuit. The fault turned out to be one of the braids between the terminal plate and speaker coil, I resoldered but the fault was still present. Visually the braid looked fine, not obviously broken but measured open circuit. Cutting the end off and resoldering to the terminal plate fixed the problem. So basically was an open circuit piece of copper, like I say no obvious break in it - very strange.

[@AndyDoz]

Nice save. Back in the day I had a Vauxhall Astra estate, which refused to start one morning. That turned out to be the ground connection to the battery, which was a braided copper strap. Whilst a little bit green, it had gone high resistance.

[@johnrudden5251]

Another great repair Andy 🙌

[@AndyDoz]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@richardh100]

thanks again perfect repair , Sinclair was the same with all their stuff Center negative power supplies a great thing to watch on KZbin is the micromen about Tim Curry and Clive Sinclair😊

[@AndyDoz]

Oh, no ... it's centre positive! It's just the regulator that's upside down...

[@firsteerr]

i seriously considered one of those back in the day but it just didn't have the software titles round our way so was swayed to the specie because i had to pay for my own stuff and wasn't a posh lad who could get a c64

[@mikehibbett3301]

Re speaker whine, don't forget your hearing isn't as good as when you were a kid :)

[@AndyDoz]

The speaker being open didn't help! It's there. I can still hear it even if it didn't come out on the mic, but you're right, it's certainly not as good as it was 40 years ago!

[@mikehibbett3301]

@@AndyDoz lol. I never owned one of these, but had a friend who loved it, at university in the 1980s