Hi, I'm new...

[Tony Duell]

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> Hi,
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> I tried to post this last night, but used the
> wrong address (cctalk at classiccomp.org)!
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> I'm new!

Welcome to the list!

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> I'm Andrew, 26, from the UK and since 2001
> have developed a healthy interest in the Amiga
>  after getting an Amiga 600.

I'm also from the UK, I've been restoring classic computers for the last 
20 years (and don't intend to stop now). 

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> I won't bore you with it's specs (unless anyone
> wants me too :)  ), but I have a problem in
> that it's possible a resistor may have become
> faulty (looooonng story). With all this talk

Why do you suspect a resistor? That's one of the least likely components 
to fail. What esactly has happened to the machine, and what's the fault. 
There are many very knowledgeable hardware types here, but none of us are 
mind-readers :-) And if you've done something stupid, like cut the wrong 
resisotr when doing an upgrade, tell us _now_, not after we've spent 
several hours with the schematics and 'scope...

> of PCB's etc. I was wondering if anyone here
> had any advice (or experience) in replacing
> a resistor (if it's possible)?

I have lost count of the number of components I've replaced on PCBs over 
the years... Suffice it to say that many of us here don't worry at all 
about component-level repair on through-hole or normal SMD boards. It's 
just something we do. 

I've got many manuals that tell me a particular module can't be repaired. 
I just ignore them, and write my own repair docs if necessary...

AFAIK there's nothing that difficult to replace in an A600, but I am not 
an expert on this machine (heck, I am not an expert on anything).

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> I also have recently started becoming
> interested in the TRS-80. I currently have 30

My second computer was a TRS-80 Model 1 (my first, FWIW, was an MK14, yes 
I still have both). I now have a Model 3 and Model 4, and several CoCos. 
And schematics, etc for all of them.

-tony