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The rampack infamously suffered from "rampack wobble" where a slight movement of the machine would disconnect lines between the motherboard and the rampack caus
by Chris_Newton 10y ago
The rampack infamously suffered from "rampack wobble" where a slight movement of the machine would disconnect lines between the motherboard and the rampack causing a crash.
Oh, that wobble! Definitely on my short list of the most annoying hardware problems in computing history. You’d spend ages typing in the code for a game from your book, and then just as you were ready to go…
- FabHK 10y agoDid teach you to save frequently though, on cassette tape, which only took a few minutes! :-)
- Chris_Newton 10y agoCassette tape? We didn’t have such luxuries until we got an Acorn Electron a few years later! So jealous. :-)