More progress made, the rest of the parts are installed including the RPi and the switches, though the switches need to have the soldering completed. IMG20240421192016.jpg IMG20240421194943.jpg The switches are the hardest part, it's a case of soldering in one corner, then make sure the alignment is...

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 ...