... Mostly reassembly ...new fuse holder and fan. Cleaning thoroughly. Works pretty well similar in performance to my other scopes -- Sent from my PDP 8/e....
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Evan Koblentz
ekoblentz
Mar 3, 2012 2:34 am
Announcing * another * VCF East 8.0 sponsor: Western Design Center. The company (www.westerndesigncenter.com) is owned by MOS 6502 co-creator Bill Mensch....
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Mike Loewen
mloewen16823
Mar 3, 2012 2:23 am
If anyone is interested, please contact the original poster. ... Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 19:47:16 -0500 (EST) From: Candy Brown <cbrown6126@...> To:...
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Bill Sudbrink
bsudbrink
Mar 3, 2012 2:02 am
I just took a quick look around the web... Good grief! Those suckers are expensive. The old used ones on ebay are expensive! Even the "cheap Chinese" ones...
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Bill Sudbrink
bsudbrink
Mar 3, 2012 1:50 am
B Degnan ... Neat. What sort of restoration did it require? I'm not much on scope service myself, but there is a very active Tektronix scope group on Yahoo: ...
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Bill Sudbrink
bsudbrink
Mar 3, 2012 1:32 am
... As I think you know, that's the easy part. The total recalibration, from what I understand, is a bear! ... Wow! That's a nice one. It auto-calibrates? ...
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David Gesswein
dgesswein
Mar 3, 2012 1:29 am
... I've been using a 547 for a long time. They have a nice trace and triggering. I have two so when one decides to be temperamental I can use the other. I did...
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B Degnan
billdeg
Mar 3, 2012 1:19 am
I got and restored this recently http://www.vintagecomputer.net/browse_thread_record.cfm?id=451&tid=1 Bill -- Sent from my PDP 8/e....
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Dave McGuire
purringdave
Mar 3, 2012 1:04 am
... Doh, yes...too much caffeine today. I too have a TDS3012. ... Yes, it's rather nice! ... I didn't know there was a VGA output option for that scope....
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Bill Sudbrink
bsudbrink
Mar 3, 2012 12:44 am
... Well spotted! Yes, that's exactly what it is (well, 3012 (I assume 3102 is a typo)). It's not half bad for a digital scope. If you look closely through...
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dfnr2
Mar 2, 2012 9:41 pm
... I love it! A nice round number. OSI got it right with their C1/C2/C4/C8 (If you concentrate on their pure 6502 goodness, and ignoring their misadventures...
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B. Degnan
billdeg
Mar 2, 2012 9:22 pm
... keys are sticky. ... I have in my list of projects intentions on making my 4032 into a "4096" by adding 64 K....
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Dave McGuire
purringdave
Mar 2, 2012 9:13 pm
... Hey, is that a Tek TDS3102 up there? If not, it's damn similar. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA...
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dfnr2
Mar 2, 2012 8:45 pm
Hi all, In the past couple of weeks, I added a few items to my collection. I got all these off Ebay, and suprisingly, nobody else bid, so I lucked out :-) -...
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dfnr2
Mar 2, 2012 8:35 pm
I'll be in the SF Bay area next week, and I thought I'd swing through my old haunts in the south bay. Much has changed in the last 25 years or so. Most of...
I have a couple of 5v 1.5A switchers you're welcome to. Let me know and I'll bring a couple to VCF. ... From: midatlanticretro@yahoogroups.com on behalf of...
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Christian Liendo
christian_li...
Mar 1, 2012 9:18 pm
It's a switcher, I used it in college for a class and I never really used it again....
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Dave McGuire
purringdave
Mar 1, 2012 8:14 pm
... Is your power supply linear, or a switcher? If the former, it's likely a cakewalk to repair; send it over to me or bring it to VCF and I'd be happy to...
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Bob Applegate
bobk2ut
Mar 1, 2012 2:01 pm
... Unless you want the cassette interface, a 5v @ 1.5 amp supply will work fine. I've picked up a number of cheap supplies from www.mpja.com. I like these,...
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Christian Liendo
christian_li...
Mar 1, 2012 1:55 pm
Dan's KIM is making me want to work on mine again.. I bought Bob Applegate's I/O Board http://www.k2ut.org/kim_io.html But my variable power supply died... I...
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Bob Applegate
bobk2ut
Mar 1, 2012 1:33 pm
... He beat me too. Bob...
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corey986
Mar 1, 2012 1:01 pm
Ah so you beat me on the eBay Auction :-) glad to see it went to a good home......
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Bill Sudbrink
bsudbrink
Mar 1, 2012 12:53 pm
... As messy bench is a sign of a clean mind: http://wsudbrink.dyndns.org:8080/images/cromemco/bench.JPG ...
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Christian Liendo
christian_li...
Mar 1, 2012 12:27 pm
Dam... Dan has got a lot of neat toys! @Evan... Nah I just photobombed ya.....
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Dave McGuire
purringdave
Mar 1, 2012 5:41 am
... Of course. I meant which actual signals were available, not the fanout. (why did I just picture Dan in a sexy Sarah Palin pose? ;)) -Dave -- Dave McGuire,...
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Dan Roganti
ragoo_sauce
Mar 1, 2012 5:39 am
... <mojo> Buffer,baby, Buffer ;) </mojo>...
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Dave McGuire
purringdave
Mar 1, 2012 5:33 am
... Are the signals present on the "E" bus of the KIM-1 sufficient to drive your design? -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA...
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Dan Roganti
ragoo_sauce
Mar 1, 2012 5:31 am
... Now that you mention it, maybe I should setup a booth with a demo from my workshop that shows one of the computers running with the vector graphics kit. ...
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Evan Koblentz
ekoblentz
Mar 1, 2012 5:13 am
... Looking forward to it. Back to your KIM though -- will that be part of your VCF East exhibit?...