I've repaired quite a few in the past and never seen one that wasn't made by Orion.

I have a few and tend to find the controls get a bit "noisy" if they haven't been used for a while.

Post a picture taken by you (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline.

5318008 🤣

Smoothing capacitor for the voltage rail that the red, green and blue CRT drive transistors are connected to. Usually on the CRT base PCB.

Exterminator?

There's a Model 170 and a Model 18 on eBay, I'd love to get my hands on them but the seller is asking for over £400 each for them so it's never gonna happen!

I think MQP finally went bump last year. I'm a fan of their stuff too, I have a couple of Model 200's and had been working on reverse engineering the firmware for a bit of something to do.

Gravity?

I said hello to Gordon Banks in the local chippy about fifteen years ago.

Robbie Williams has let himself go...

It probably wasn't meant to, but it reminded me of Beat the Teacher.

What a shower of c*nts.

That's Skweeze Me, Pleeze Me

I see what you did there 😁

Should have parked on Goose Street instead...

I see what you did there...

No, but I have been working in a similar industry for a while.

MPU4 and MPU5, I remember them well!

Sounds like Barcrest.

That takes me back... from 2000 to 2003 that's how I used to earn a living.

It doesn't owe you anything then!

Yes, the one by the hot-running components looks completely shagged. Built-in obsolescence or just poor design?

It's a fantastic venue for conferences and the like. I am slightly biased though as I worked there for seventeen years...

The OPD is a re-engineered QL with a few extra bits added on.