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Do we source components from donors? As in the special chips?
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Atarian Computing wrote: 31 Jul 2018 12:11 Do we source components from donors? As in the special chips?
Yeah, you're going to need a donor board of some sort.
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rubber_jonnie wrote: 31 Jul 2018 12:22
Atarian Computing wrote: 31 Jul 2018 12:11 Do we source components from donors? As in the special chips?
Yeah, pretty sure you're going to need a donor board of some sort.
No worries, got several. And some NOS chips.
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Atarian Computing wrote: 31 Jul 2018 12:24 No worries, got several. And some NOS chips.
Likewise. I have one board in particular in mind, which will donate it's body for science :)
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exxos wrote: 31 Jul 2018 11:41 Snip
Do you have a BOM readily available perhaps?
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I have a BOM, not checked all parts yet, but will upload it at a later date.

Will need a donor ST for man parts such as , MMU, GLUE, Shifter etc, other parts like MFP, 1772, I do stock in my store, but a whole spare donor ST will have all parts.

The circuit isn't identical, example needs a Falcon RAM card (1MB or 4MB), PLCC 68000..

Other parts are generic resistors and capacitors etc which should be easy to obtain from any half decent supplier.
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Hmm, so I guess I'm seeing SMD type PLCC sockets on the board?

If so then I'm going to have to get some sort of hot air soldering practise in, since I don't have an oven!!

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rubber_jonnie wrote: 31 Jul 2018 12:53 Hmm, so I guess I'm seeing SMD type PLCC sockets on the board?
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Normal PLCC sockets (not funky ones either, just normal PLCC sockets).

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