Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

The third drive came in, & it has the same bad belt problem. My last hope for a local source was a belt from a bargain bin, but it's both too big (218 mm) & too thick.

I have 3 Matsushita EME-278TY floppy disk drives, & all 3 have stretched or broken belts. I've never even *seen* a belt-driven 3.5" drive before this month.

Would anyone happen to have 3 thin spindle belts about 214-216 mm in circumference, 1-2 mm wide, and less than 1 mm thick, you could part with?

@quephird@mastodon.social Hi, I just want to say that your display name is awesome. :3

I need to find a way to put a fairy-wand star & bow on the end of my repair kit's socketed screwdriver handle.

I can now add a 21st Century WinCE-powered machine (that does make me wince) to the list of computers my fix-it computer fairy wand has magically restored.

If you asked me when I was a kid what repairing computers would entail, scrubbing cases with Lava knock-off in order to install replacement keyboards would never have come to mind.

I'm cleaning the other, amazingly-hacked ZX-81 I got on eBay.

My bank can give me instructions to upgrade my credit card machine in a phone call or via text message. They can't send instructions to me in email, & they don't have a Web page with instructions.

What century is it?

What I mean by the volume set at "Marty McFly": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-njcAia6nY

It works! I should probably remove the RF modulator cover & see if that can be cleaned up, but it works.

The test keypresses were: P {Shift-P} 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 Q W E R T Y U I O P A S D F G H J K L {Space} {period} M N B V C X Z {Enter (now New Line)}

I also had a kaleidoscope program in a .wav file ready for testing. Android won't let you keep the headphone jack volume at "Marty McFly," but the Sinclair can't hear anything softer.

Don't forget to do laundry and dishes. Stack the socks and fold the plates.

Softing Microfuck is going back to the bad old days and then some. If you try to install Chrome, Firefox, Opera, or just about any other Web browser on Windows 10 insider, Windows itself will behave like malware, blocking it & tricking you into staying with Microsoft Edge. Given their history, especially using malware to push Windows 10 unwanted to Windows 7 & 8.1 computers in '15-'16, this probably /will/ go out to you next month.
https://www.ghacks.net/2018/09/12/microsoft-intercepting-firefox-chrome-installation-on-windows-10/