{"id":860,"date":"2015-03-11T19:11:21","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T19:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/?p=860"},"modified":"2015-03-11T19:11:21","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T19:11:21","slug":"bbc-micro-so-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/?p=860","title":{"rendered":"BBC Micro. So close."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spoiler alert. If you don&#8217;t want to know what happened, don&#8217;t read the title of this post. Too late.<\/p>\n<p>I got home tonight to find that the new keyboard cable for the BBC Micro had arrived. I plugged it in and just a long beep. Doh!<\/p>\n<p>I then did a lot of looking and checking and found that the left most pin on the motherboard had been bent over at some point. I bent it over and tried again. This time, beep, beep and a banner and prompt.<\/p>\n<p>Yea!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_20150311_184500250.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-861\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_20150311_184500250-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20150311_184500250\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_20150311_184500250-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_20150311_184500250-1024x575.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>However. It hands after a minute of so. A restart and it only lasts seconds and so I&#8217;m convinced that it&#8217;s thermal. More investigation needed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spoiler alert. If you don&#8217;t want to know what happened, don&#8217;t read the title of this post. Too late. I got home tonight to find that the new keyboard cable for the BBC Micro had arrived. I plugged it in and just a long beep. Doh! I then did a lot of looking and checking &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/?p=860\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BBC Micro. So close.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bbc-micro","category-c84-retro-tech"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"andy","author_link":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/?author=1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":862,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions\/862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}