Post here everytime you get something new!

[Pedro Lambrini]

That is just too cool!

 

[SkydivinGirl]

Today, I got the Megabit 128 Rom Adaptor board. For $20, it provides a lot of possibilities for an Eprom for your 128. for more info here I believe I got the 32 Meg Rom, but honestly I can't remember at this moment.

Thanks for posting about this! I received mine a couple days ago. Your post made me read up on this wonderful little device.

Take care,

Heather

 

[quarkx]

Today, I got the Megabit 128 Rom Adaptor board. For $20, it provides a lot of possibilities for an Eprom for your 128. for more info here I believe I got the 32 Meg Rom, but honestly I can't remember at this moment.

Thanks for posting about this! I received mine a couple days ago. Your post made me read up on this wonderful little device.

Take care,

Heather

No problem Heather,
For $20, it seemed almost criminal not to share it here.

 

[SkydivinGirl]

I received an e-mail today that said my MONOCHRON Clock kit has shipped! I can't wait to start soldering this together.

Heather

 

[Templar]

Ping Pong?

 

[AndyLandy]

"Andy, you like Amiga stuff, want a sound sampler?"
"Ooh, yes please!"

 

[xc8]

ahahah

Just received this, nice tools to cannibalize and torture 'bad' boards...

chris

 

[Templar]

LOL... Good luck m8.

 

[Muzer]

Quite boring, but I want to get into the habit of doing this.

4-port backplane for my RISC PC

 

[rkauer]

@Muzzy: not-so-oddly, those appear to be the same mid-connector of the A1200 Mediator.

Elbox use the same one to save costs, I guess.

 

[Muzer]

When looking in this month's issue of retro gamer, I noticed one of the ports on the back of the SAM Coupe looks suspiciously similar to that too - I might look again to see if they are identical.

 

[xc8]

When looking in this month's issue of retro gamer, I noticed one of the ports on the back of the SAM Coupe looks suspiciously similar to that too - I might look again to see if they are identical.

The 'Euroconnector' is very common in Europe.. I ve seen even some systems even voice hubs that use this kind of connector.

Chris

 

[Muzer]

Makes sense - I didn't realise it was standard.

EDIT: Oh, that reminds me; must see if my local primary school is chucking out their RISC PC - they are moving to a new site in Easter and when I was there they had a RISC PC; tried to collect it about 2 years back but they said they were still using it. I hope they haven't chucked it!

 

[AndyLandy]

@Muzzy: not-so-oddly, those appear to be the same mid-connector of the A1200 Mediator.

Elbox use the same one to save costs, I guess.

The Podule sockets also look very much like Mac NuBus slots:

 

[Muzer]

Lol - I really didn't realise they are everywhere... why aren't they used on anything else than Macs that are modern? They are really nice sockets; very easy to use but also very stable and secure.

 

[AndyLandy]

They aren't even used in modern Macs. I think NuBus went out with 68k on the Macs. These days they're all PCI (And then only on the high-end tower Macs, nothing else is expandable)

 

[quarkx]

I still have yet to actually get it in, but last night I won an auction I am very excited about. One of my last acquisitions for my Commodore collection. (I still am looking for a CBM II), but I won for relatively cheap a Commodore PC-10. Other than the formentioned CBM-II, I now have a representation of almost all the Computers Commodore made in the 80's.
Now, other than small bits and pieces, I am on the hunt for a nice CBM II, a C116, and a 128 D. In a perfect world I could get a C900 and a C65, but we all know that the chances of that are slim to none.

 

[Zetr0]

WOW!!!

I learned C/C++ at microtech on a CBM PC-10.... amber screen though!!!

I remember complaining loudly about the need for 256k swapfiles.....

(it only had a 20MB HDD at the time) - oh it had 1x 5.25" FDD and a 3.5" FDD - a knackerd F5 key and a very tempermental space bar

 

[quarkx]

Yeh, not very many people know about the Commodore PC line. I got to dig through the parts pit and fin an 8 bit NIC for it, to hook it up to the network, and find a RAM upgrade board, it likely only has the base 640K of RAM, it would be nice to put at least 4 megs of Ram and run more than DOS 2.11.

 

[Zetr0]

I am pretty sure the PC-10 I was coding on was a 386 base, with 6 or 8mb of ram - running dos6.2 - I may have an 8bit nic somewhere, so keep looking your end, if I find it, its yours.