Recent content by dankcomputing

I'm after an SMT 68030. Must be at least 25 mhz, can still be attached to a junk board. I already have through-hole 030s of varying speeds, this is needed to resurrect a system. The situation with fakes on eBay and UTSource for these chips is catastrophic. It is now impossible to source one...

You just need a matching button, but nobody's come forward with a suitable 3d-printable button. If your replacement drive is the same brand the button should transfer over.

He's got a PVM so you know he's legit.

I got it going on my Tandy 1000TL/2. Phenomenal port. Let’s see Plantronics support next!

Also keep in mind after you've recapped them that these PSUs will normally tick/crowbar without a dummy load.

Since the deaths of Weird Stuff and Excess Solutions/HSC, the place the personal computer originated from, the literal Silicon Valley itself, has been without any real electronics junk store of any kind. You can get a small selection of new/NOS components at Santa Cruz Electronics, Anchor...

From the website:

SFD1001 is an 80-track non-high-density (sometimes called "quad density") drive, so at the very least the stepper motor is totally different from your garden variety 1541.

I would say leave the cart slot in and integrate as many of the peripherals that the average user would plug in anyway as will fit- the 32k ram expansion, the floppy controller, the serial port, maybe even the speech unit. I've never seen a PEB with any more than those cards in it and a PEB is...

What do you use to fill in the holes in the plastic?

If this could somehow drop into an original TI-99 case it'd be pretty exciting. The 32K sidecar is atrociously huge and it'd be wonderful to be able to get rid of it.

That worked! I had to browse to the DOS directory and run INSTALL from there, then choose a custom installation because it defaults to installing the Windows 3.1 drivers. It looks like a whole bunch of different manufacturers have reused this card design, so it's been sold under different names...

I opened up my TL/2 and added the pins to the jumpers that didn't have them soldered. I jumpered E1-E2 but noticed that there were also E3-E4 (which are already jumpered via a trace), E11-E10, and the single point E5. They aren't documented anywhere and there's no TL/2-specific schematics out...

I can't remember where I found this card, but it appears to be fairly late for an 8-bit ISA SCSI card. No boot ROM, which is fine, but there's no config jumpers either. Is the 2 PALs worth of glue logic even enough to implement Plug & Play? Maybe the controller chip itself has it. Or it's fixed...

Link appears to be broken. Maybe someone could add it to the Pouet page?