Oh, that's annoying! You've not been rubbing your feet on the carpet before touching the board whilst playing with a Van de Graff generator have you?

No BlueSCSI V2 in the mail today. *sigh*

Supposedly the 68882 and FDC1962B are now in the post.

More courier pergatory.

Getting there!

Well, the most important thing you need to know is that a "file" on a Mac is actually two files in the filesystem, the "resource fork", holding the meta data about the file, such as it's type, whether it's executable and if so how to start it, and what program should be used to o...

Well, that'll be why it can't read the disks... The FDC9216B clock/data separator chip is dead. Both the clock and data output pins wibble a bit when the drive is reading but it's not a real signal.

Oh, and just to show how dim the display is...

Can you get the machine to run fully other with the pin lifted? i.e. with everything else in place does it start up?

Seeing as I'm waiting for parts for the LC III I've got the second Kaypro back on the bench. Opened the top and connected a Gotek to the floppy interface header and turned on... No boot. It says that it can't read the disk. "Ejecting" the virtual disk does as it should have wait until the ...

Chrome breaks in new and interesting ways every night when it's updated.

At least assuming I should see 60Hz for HSYNC and 15.63Khz for VSYNC. I need to check the datasheet for the 123 and verify what it should be doing based on the components around it. Surely that should be the other way around? VSYNC should be slower, once every frame, but HSYNC faster as it's every ...