stephen_usher wrote: ↑Sat Apr 20, 2024 2:46 pm Back home again. I may get time for some retro stuff this weekend but I'm really tired after leaving Cornwall at 7:30am.

Seems like it's been a busy few days, a rest is always good.

I posted the other day on my general chat about the PiDP -8/I kit that I'd just received, so time to get on with the build :) This is how it arrived: IMG20240419153349.jpg And first off was a parts sort: IMG20240420114919.jpg And there are a lot of LED's!! IMG20240420114930.jpg Luckily I had a suita...

Good stuff

This should go nicely with the Altair and Kenbak:


More on this later

They are spectacularly tiny, and very easy to miss!! Maybe not so easy to miss with the tweezers though? ;) :hide: Quite... Strictly speaking I pushed the M92T36 IC to check it was floating, changed position and nudged a whole heap of stuff off with the IC. Then I managed to make it worse with the ...

stephen_usher wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 2:55 pm

rubber_jonnie wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 2:13 pm

Mostly, but there are some that 'might' be resistors and are so damn tiny I'm not 100% sure what they are.

Oh, I see them now. Yesy, they look like tiny resistors. I'd not even noticed them in your picture before.

They are spectacularly tiny, and very easy to miss!!

stephen_usher wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 1:14 pm Oh, only decoupling caps dislodged really then.

Mostly, but there are some that 'might' be resistors and are so damn tiny I'm not 100% sure what they are.

I almost never buy from larger places like RS, Farnell, Digi-Key and Mouser because for the small numbers I buy, it is truly extortionate what they charge for delivery. I usually make an order of just above 50€ (without VAT) to get free shipping. For small stuff where I'm ok-ish with made in China,...

OK, wow. I bought the spares board yesterday and it arrived today!!! IMG20240419120249.jpg Spares board is on top, you can see the carnage my slip caused on the bottom board. I have also managed to secure another cheap Switch Lite that has a broken case but works, so I have a bit of a backup plan if...

I pretty much only ever get TTL IC's from eBay these days. I have a few sources I trust, but I don't doubt they will eventually dry out. Sure it's a risk, and sometimes you get bad un's, but more often than not they are good, at least from the sellers I use. I almost never buy from larger places lik...