Subj : Re: The Documentary...
To   : Joe Delahaye
From : Angus McLeod
Date : Sat Aug 13 2005 12:24 am

  Re: Re: The Documentary...
  By: Joe Delahaye to Digital Man on Fri Aug 12 2005 21:32:00

 > PUrchased a bare PC board (XT) and associated cards for same, all
 > unpopulated, and build them up.  Lot of soldering <G>  Pays to have a
 > buddy that worked where I could get the parts for free (resistors
 > etc.), except for certain ones I had to buy :(  Worked too, and I used
 > the thing for 2 years and then sold it <G>.

I purchased my first computer as a 'kit'.  I had to solder the entire 
thing together.  Over 50 TTL chips and 5 LSI devices, plus literally 
hundreds of resistors, diodes and caps.  You even had to wind a coil!  

I bought a bunch of sockets so as not to have to solder the chips direct 
to the PCB, and heated up my Antex.  It worked like a champ!  Output on 
the British TV band.  Remember the coil?  Squeeze/stretch to shift the 
output and then tune the telly up/down the band to find it.



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