In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rich 
Mellor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes

>On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 18:54:55 +0100, Malcolm Cadman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
>
>> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tony Firshman
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>>
>>> Rich Mellor wrote:
>>>> Malcolm Cadman has given me a Gold Card for sale - however it has the
>>>> two
>>>> outer pins on the 5V regulator shorted and a capacitor on the underside
>>>> (underneath the 68000) - I presume it has been adapted for power
>>>> through a
>>>> backplane - can someone remind me of the modifications which would have
>>>> been made, so I can undo them....
>>>>
>>> The link is the only one I do. Leave the capacitor - that is probably
>>> original.
>>>
>>> Tony
>>
>> You've reminded, Rich, that the Gold Card came from a "home-brew" QL set
>> up that was disassembled.
>>
>> The capacitor looked to me like an at source modification.
>>
>
>Well it works nicely now :-)
>
>Tony was right, all I needed was to remove the lead that shorted the pins
>on the regulator

Excellent !

Gold Cards are robust pieces of kit.

-- 
Malcolm Cadman
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