Today I Received...

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Today I received a nice little soldering station. Looks well made, seems to work fine (at least for my needs) and, finally, I have soft cables! My Antex iron has a really hard PVC cable which makes it impossible to manipulate as it fights me all the time. This one doesn't. (Image stolen from amazon!)
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The little tin on the top is full of brass shavings to clean your tip. It's a lot deeper than it looks as it's recessed into the body of the station.

The Amazon UK link is https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07X3CZ3FJ? ... asin_image if anyone in interested. Not too shabby for £44 which was a "bargain" as I saved a whole £1.00! :D


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What a week this is turning out to be, today I received in the post, this:
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I'm impressed by the quality of the paper and the printing.

If anyone wants or needs a printed copy, Tinyfgpa is the man to see, this link has details viewtopic.php?f=9&t=3294&start=40#p35207.

Thanks Tinyfgpa.


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I received my Q68 today!! Just waiting for a suitable power supply now.. anyone have preferences?

Thanks Derek!!

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Well - not yet received - but ordered and on it's way:

https://ebay.us/MIw7P4

I always fancied building one of these but balked at the price of the whole kit - so a project for over the winter months I feel :-) I have a good few of the IC's and connectors already - so the build cost should be fairly low.

Sadly one of the engineers involved in it's design passed away this year :-( RIP


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Pr0f wrote:Well - not yet received - but ordered and on it's way:

https://ebay.us/MIw7P4

I always fancied building one of these but balked at the price of the whole kit - so a project for over the winter months I feel :-) I have a good few of the IC's and connectors already - so the build cost should be fairly low.

Sadly one of the engineers involved in it's design passed away this year :-( RIP
Does it control rows of flashing lights and big spinning tapes?


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Hi,

The Gigaton, was always something I meant have go at building.

Sad news about the designer.

The web site is:
https://gigatron.io/


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vanpeebles wrote:
Pr0f wrote:Well - not yet received - but ordered and on it's way:

https://ebay.us/MIw7P4

I always fancied building one of these but balked at the price of the whole kit - so a project for over the winter months I feel :-) I have a good few of the IC's and connectors already - so the build cost should be fairly low.

Sadly one of the engineers involved in it's design passed away this year :-( RIP
Does it control rows of flashing lights and big spinning tapes?
first mainframe I worked on was a bit like that - back in the day when 4MB would run the entire company, supporting teleprocessing systems, batch processes and several hundred pages of reports a day...


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Pr0f wrote:
vanpeebles wrote:
Pr0f wrote:Well - not yet received - but ordered and on it's way:

https://ebay.us/MIw7P4

I always fancied building one of these but balked at the price of the whole kit - so a project for over the winter months I feel :-) I have a good few of the IC's and connectors already - so the build cost should be fairly low.

Sadly one of the engineers involved in it's design passed away this year :-( RIP
Does it control rows of flashing lights and big spinning tapes?
first mainframe I worked on was a bit like that - back in the day when 4MB would run the entire company, supporting teleprocessing systems, batch processes and several hundred pages of reports a day...
Bonus points if you had to climb inside :D


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No - but I did repair the 8" floppy drive used to load the microcode when you pressed the IML button - with one of the posties larger rubber bands :-)


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Pr0f wrote:No - but I did repair the 8" floppy drive used to load the microcode when you pressed the IML button - with one of the posties larger rubber bands :-)
Haha, that's great :) When I did my school work experience in the early mid 90s, Durham County still had places using 8" drives!


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