I know what you mean about the weight of these old portables, I have an Amstrad Alt-386 and it's a dead weight.

Some progress today, a bit behind where I wanted to be on account of jobs needing doing in the garden, I'll I'll keep pressing on. PCB assembly - 86 LEDs to install, and each LED has a standoff: IMG20240421154534.jpg IMG20240421154544.jpg Very slow going and I haven't even started soldering the LEDs...

agranlund wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2024 1:52 pm Oh wow, that's going to be one beautiful machine!

It will be, but boy are there a lot of LEDs to solder in!!!

It seems the Z80 is being EOL'd:

Z80 EOL

Watch prices start to shoot up to ridiculous levels and for hoarding to become a thing...

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!!