On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 5:58 AM ajpierson1 via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
In the mean time, I've played through Doom Eternal which was amazing.
I see my friends playing that but I'm pretty sure it will crush my gaming box.
I've also repaired my Heathkit H89's power problems which knocked it out of commission on Friday night of VCF East last year.
I recently acquired an H89. I haven't even powered it on yet and it's in the basement of our makerspace so I won't be getting to it anytime soon.
...while I was making the repairs the other day, I swapped the old linear regulator for a drop-in switch mode supply (also in a TO-3 package). So far, I've had good luck with those in a VIC-20 and a 1541 drive, thus it seemed like a natural choice to reduce heat output in my H89.
Which one of these are you using? I have a similar assortment of machines (and there are some of these in PETs as well) so it's a part I could use in multiple locations.
If any of you are familiar with the Votrax SC-01-A speech synthesizer chip, I scored a Type'N Talk on ebay recently, and spent some time figuring out how to interface with it properly.
I saw your posts. The arcade-sized Gorf and the RB5X robot have either an SC-01 or SC-02 (I'd have to check). Nice chip. Sounds like you have plenty of fun projects going. Cheers, -ethan