Backfeeding powered USB hubs are a menace, but they can be easily fixed without needing to open them up with a bit of insulation tape: cut a sliver of insulation tape approximately 2mm in width and place it over pin one (right side as you stare into it) on the USB-A plug from the hub. Have it as far in as you can get it then wrap the remainder down around the bottom of the plug. When you next insert it, the tape'll be pressed into place and isolate the 5V supplies of the ST and the hub. I keep a suitbly modifed USB-A to USB-B cable around for just such cases -- it's also useful on my 3D printer to not backfeed power to that.
Hi, i bought a NetUSBee at a geeky show (CyberLegends) in Northampton last summer for my Falcon030 mainly, but i have an STE and an STFM too... what a great product... my Falcon030 has a modified keyboard and a dicky mouse port, (not the original dark keyboard, thats safely put away, just an old repaired STFM one) i will fix it when i am feeling brave.... Plus i am part way through a BBC Micro B and an Archimedes A3000 Repairs
I got up, got ready and was about to head off to cyber legends when I found out the trains were running a bus replacement service there and back and the journey time was doubled! Next time there's one I hope to make it.
Really, these videos are all high quality. I had ST old days, but mostly for me it was just games or a BBS now and then. I never had monocrome display, and the ST kind of becomes a different machine at 640x400.
Great, thanks to your video I can use the NetUSBee to back up files without using the floppy drive. I don't have to mention how slow the floppy drive is - this device can beat me swapping out the floppy disk. The floppies are also rather space limited. I have ordered one.
The one in my ST/FM is 4MB, it was a pain to fit, IIRC there's a board that you insert over the MMU, quite a few bodge wires to solder, plus a ribbon cable to a daughterboard that has SIM sockets in it.but it was well worth it.
