exxos blog - random goings on

[JezC]

Take out a mortgage and buy all the bits from my store instead

That would probably still come in cheaper than the divorce bill if I did remortgage the house

Ah...if only all the bits were available in your store...
I'm hoping to put in one of your original 16 MHz v1 ST accelerators as the processor (and maybe ask for a blitter as my Christmas present).

To be fair I do have a few non-booting STs, one of which may be sacrificed for the 'greater good' (does anybody else get the mental picture from Hot Fuzz when they hear that phrase? )...but I probably need to get it mostly working before it is dismembered.

Now what did I do with those 27C512 EPROMs that I want to program up as diagrom images...

[JezC]

Going to get some odd looks in the post office when I clutter the whole place up with H4 boxes

Nah - they will think you've turned over a new leaf & are sending out your presents much earlier than usual

[exxos]

Ah...if only all the bits were available in your store...

I thought everything was ? There is the cart-ports, going to salvage those soon... Well the H4 generic parts are not there, but at £100+ a pop its not something I can really afford to keep stock of

[JezC]

I thought everything was ? There is the cart-ports, going to salvage those soon... Well the H4 generic parts are not there, but at £100+ a pop its not something I can really afford to keep stock of

Must have missed some of the latest additions...sorry. Hard to keep up with all the activity at the moment.
I will wait to see what if anything needs adding to the assembled H4 & put in (another) order for the shortages.
Better start saving up...

[exxos]

25KG of "whats in the box"...

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[TimNaber]

Wow! a 55 pound (US weight) box, damn.

[exxos]

A small update about my alt-ram boards.

I've ordered some more SRAM chips so I can build up more than just 2 boards for testing. Due to the price of them from mouser, I took a gamble from China on some. So will take a few weeks to arrive no doubt. When they do arrive, I will get 5 boards made up ready for testing with flashy-clock

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[exxos]

Thanks to Icky, we have a render on how this will look

So this board is no bigger than the 68K CPU. Also stackable without using much additional height. This board can be driven with any up coming items, mostly flashy-clock to start with. Then we will finally have some proper benchmarks in GB6 for alt-ram tests

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[exxos]

Busy making more boxes .

I think any future motherboard orders, will just have to go as motherboards only even if people order other parts as well, as cutting all the boxes down small enough to qualify as a small parcel, is a bit of a nightmare. Its basically taking almost 2 hours to do each order

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[exxos]

Just unpacked this package.. Blank ROMs, 3M sockets, PSU IC's.. Over £1,000 worth of bits right there!

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