Gary C
Veteran Member
As the title ?
If so, what are your intentions ?
I have a kit on the way with all the required IC's and what looks like a JCLPCB manufactured Mimeo clone PCB (from the German guy who did the replica manual)
Also ordered the Triad F40-X and F31-X as suggested in the original manual as both are still being made. Also got the original spec heat sink on order plus the original spec Sprauge new Electrolytic capacitors but they will be delayed until September while they are being manufactured (some same spec but radial connection caps will do in the meantime).
I know Uncle Bernie suggests adding several caps onto the +5V lines around some of the Drams and adding some terminating resistors under the PCB and I do think its probably a good idea to implement these mods to make the machine reliable, it probably would have been done in the day if it had been known about.
Not sure what to do with the keyboard or the case. I do have an Apple ][ keyboard without an encoder card and could just get the modern encoder replacement that includes an Apple-1 connection, that would be really simple but I might be able to get a vintage ASCII encoding keyboard with a numeric keypad but that wouldn't match the normal byte shop 'look'.
The case, I can't get Koa wood but some stained pine from Wickes might work, but I have also been looking at second hand solid oak dining room tables on Ebay which might work as a source of wood. I could go completely custom case of course but like a lot I think, I have the simple Koa case byte shop look in my head.
What are others doing/done/thinking ?
Yep, another project
If so, what are your intentions ?
I have a kit on the way with all the required IC's and what looks like a JCLPCB manufactured Mimeo clone PCB (from the German guy who did the replica manual)
Also ordered the Triad F40-X and F31-X as suggested in the original manual as both are still being made. Also got the original spec heat sink on order plus the original spec Sprauge new Electrolytic capacitors but they will be delayed until September while they are being manufactured (some same spec but radial connection caps will do in the meantime).
I know Uncle Bernie suggests adding several caps onto the +5V lines around some of the Drams and adding some terminating resistors under the PCB and I do think its probably a good idea to implement these mods to make the machine reliable, it probably would have been done in the day if it had been known about.
Not sure what to do with the keyboard or the case. I do have an Apple ][ keyboard without an encoder card and could just get the modern encoder replacement that includes an Apple-1 connection, that would be really simple but I might be able to get a vintage ASCII encoding keyboard with a numeric keypad but that wouldn't match the normal byte shop 'look'.
The case, I can't get Koa wood but some stained pine from Wickes might work, but I have also been looking at second hand solid oak dining room tables on Ebay which might work as a source of wood. I could go completely custom case of course but like a lot I think, I have the simple Koa case byte shop look in my head.
What are others doing/done/thinking ?
Yep, another project