Sounds like there are a ton of interesting projects going on! I’m working on a bunch of things, as usual: - waiting for parts to try to install OS/2 on the museum’s PS/2 model 70 - replacing failed Dallas chips on a variety of machines, including a sparcstation 2 and 20 - making some YouTube videos; I finally took the time to publish one, and now I have ordered some lights and a camera stand, to do it right - repairing the keyboard membrane on my Atari 1200XL Non-vintage, but I also wrote an published an Ansible role to use EntryDNS to answer ACME challenges. I really enjoy working with Ansible! - Alex On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 02:44 Ethan Dicks via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 1:00 PM Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I'm curious what projects everyone is working on.
I've been doing a lot of software projects in recent weeks - disassembling and commenting 6502 application code from the 70s and 80s. On the bench, I just received (after 2+ months of waiting) some edge connectors to finish constructing the memory/expansion board for my SYM-1, and I'd like to turn back to Commodore-128 keyboard overhaul and button up a C-128. The other keyboard project is testing a TRS-80 Model 4 keyboard (from a unit I got at VCF East years ago) that I previously disassembled, cleaned, and reassembled but is once again exhibiting high-resistance keys. Once it has a working keyboard I can close it up and play on the software side - I'd like to have a small CP/M machine handy and this is the current best candidate (I also want to do some comparison testing against the C-128 running CP/M).
So a mix of kit building, keyboard refurbing, and PET archaeology, for now.
I'd like to finish up several of these 8-bit micro projects so I can turn the wheel and get back to playing with PDP-11 hardware. Several projects in that bucket I'd like to complete.
-ethan