{"id":17,"date":"2018-04-18T15:50:31","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T15:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/retro-rick.djsho.co.uk\/?p=17"},"modified":"2018-04-18T16:26:51","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T16:26:51","slug":"its-always-worth-recapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/retro-rick.djsho.co.uk\/?p=17","title":{"rendered":"Its always worth recapping!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few months back I purchased a ZX81 ..\u00a0I could never get it working through the RF Modulator except once when I hooked it up to an old video&#8230; I noticed that it would only work when the 16K ram pack was not plugged\u00a0in..<\/p>\n<p>First thing First&#8230;.\u00a0that video&#8230; I found a nice article showing to create a simple mod to bypass RF for composite video found &gt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.classic-computers.org.nz\/blog\/2016-01-03-composite-video-for-zx81.htm\">HERE<\/a>&lt; &#8230; the difference for me was I ripped out the inside of the RF module and inserted the composite mod which consisted of 2 components and a couple of wires&#8230; that&#8217;s it.. job done, I now can hook this ZX81 to a modern TV&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Now that pesky 16K ram pack&#8230; I ended up buying another one which was no better, even though the add said fully working&#8230;\u00a0 I noticed that the expansion port on the ZX81 was corroded&#8230; I tinned the connectors and did some continuity\u00a0checks but still no joy..<\/p>\n<p>On the off chance I decided to change the capacitors and bingo that worked with the original unit&#8230; but not with the second one that was advertised as &#8220;working&#8221; &#8230; I know now my ZX81 + ram pack works..\u00a0so those naughty people selling on eBay were telling porkies&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/retro-rick.djsho.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/zx81-caps.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18\" src=\"http:\/\/retro-rick.djsho.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/zx81-caps-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/retro-rick.djsho.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/zx81-caps-300x300.png 300w, http:\/\/retro-rick.djsho.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/zx81-caps-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/retro-rick.djsho.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/zx81-caps.png 555w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few months back I purchased a ZX81 ..\u00a0I could never get it working through the RF Modulator except once when I hooked it up to an old video&#8230; I noticed that it would only work when the&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/retro-rick.djsho.co.uk\/?p=17\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[20,19,22,21],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sinclair","tag-fix-zx81","tag-zx81","tag-zx81-change-capacitors","tag-zx81-ram-fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/retro-rick.djsho.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/retro-rick.djsho.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/retro-rick.djsho.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/retro-rick.djsho.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/retro-rick.djsho.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/retro-rick.djsho.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20,"href":"http:\/\/retro-rick.djsho.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/retro-rick.djsho.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/retro-rick.djsho.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/retro-rick.djsho.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}