On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 12:00 PM <vcf-midatlantic-request@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:

Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2020 13:00:00 -0500 From: Jeffrey Brace <jeffrey@vcfed.org> To: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> Subject: [vcf-midatlantic] What projects are you working on? Message-ID: <CALWfZAKGzJ1J2_-L02rb4C9k+n1BYp2ajhhTN7PzFNqncuG_Bw@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"

During this time of year many of us are off work or inside for one reason or another. I'm curious what projects everyone is working on.

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Ha. Thanks for asking, Jeffrey. Who asks me this??? No one. haha. I am so happy to oblige: I'm still extremely underemployed, so I've been spending more time on my retrocomputing projects than ever. I have two PET 8016s that I'm restoring very slowly. At this stage I'm cleaning/repairing keyboards and trying to clean the very dirty and red markered-up cases. That's serious labor. I also have a pile of Amiga stuff I've been making progress on. Some stuff I'll keep, some I'll sell or whatever.: I'll be upgrading the SCSI chip on an Amiga 3000... hoping to get the voodoo out of the SCSI bus so I can more reliably test the myriad of SCSI accessories (some interesting stuff including a floptical drive and a bornoulli box) that I want to eventually clean up and sell. The A3000 needs a serious keyboard cleaning. I'm a little hesitant. I have a bad habit of making things worse when I "fix" them. Especially keyboards haha. I'm replacing the keyboard membrane on an Amiga 1200 (see earlier comment re:fixing keyboards). During the earlier part of the pandemic, I was able to get a Mac Classic II somewhat spiffied up, fully tricked out, and put on the network. I've been enjoying exploring the software on that, as I never had a Macintosh back in the day. I've also been doing some assembly coding for the PET... I've been eyeing my Micro-KIM as that may be next in line for some new code projects. I also did a serious repair on an old (late 1980's) Ensoniq SQ-80 synth. I learned a lot on that one... Otherwise, I've been making videos like this one: https://youtu.be/ii3ripsTF90 Hope you all are having a wonderful holiday season and I wish you all the absolute best in 2021. :) Walter ++++++++++++++++++++++ https://jwalterhawkes.com like to know where/when I'm playing? Click here to sign up for my list, and let the babble begin.