Finally I needed a case for the Gigatron. But I had to “design” it myself. The Gigatron was available as a kit from the developers until the beginning / middle of 2020, including a beautiful wooden case with a glass lid. The case was specially made for the Gigatron and with the appropriate cutouts for […]
Since the Gigatron itself apparently works, but I didn’t have a suitable game controller to operate the system, I naturally wanted to connect a keyboard. There is also the so-called Pluggy McPlugFace board. An adapter from the serial (DB9) to PS/2 port. Driven by a small Attiny85. The Attiny85 could also be programmed with my […]
After Part 1 of the Gigatron report dealt with the general introduction and the first steps in setting it up, the second part now includes the completion of the circuit board. It continues with the IC sockets. According to the instructions, sockets are only intended for the RAM and EPROM. But I decided to socket […]
I became aware of the Gigatron project through a thread in the VzEkC-Forum. The Gigatron is a computer based purely on TTL components that works entirely without a CPU. The blocks of a CPU are simulated using TTL chips. Very interesting! The Gerber files for the project are freely available, further, very detailed information is available […]
The Chip Tester Pro from the 8-Bit-Museum is a DIY project that started out as a pure DRAM / SRAM tester and has now (after several states of evolution) matured into a highly professional “almost everything tester”. After a long time I finally manage to set up the Chip Tester Pro myself. The author (Stefan) […]
Well, it is certainly not new – and it is also not my first Atari. But from today’s retro collectors point of view, it’s my “first”. And since my last one was sold over 20 years ago, this one is my “new one” too. Bought for about EUR 20, – on eBay – complete with […]
In addition to collecting old home computers from the 80s, I am spending a lot of time in different vintage computer projects, ie. I also like to play with the soldering iron 🙂 This is usually very necessary, since most computers of the 80s do not really end up on my desk in a workable […]
This is an introduction to my website about retro computing and my hobby. After some preliminary work – research on content management systems, web design, familiarization with WordPress and setting up the basic web design – I am now starting to talk a little bit about my hobby “Retro Computing”. As a child of the […]