6 Nov
2001
6 Nov
'01
12:42 p.m.
Sounds like a real nice hack. Sounds like you're proud of yours as well you
should be.
I miss doing stuff like that. Last one like that I did was to relpace a 32K
RAM board
with one from a prototye board (SS-50) where I was able to replace a whole
board full of RAM chips with a single chip plus glue logic. The weight
difference and the power consumption was noticable.
Eric
UberTechnoid(a)home.com wrote:
That sound like my interpretation of the Claus
Buckholtz 256k Atari800xl
'dead bug' upgrade. Dead bug because the ic's were upside down, legs
splayed....
After looking at his world-famous upgrade and the ICD 'Rambo 256k' upgrade
which was on a nice little board, I realized they are one-and-the-same.
I made a cross between the two I called the 'Sly Stallone 512k 800xl'. It
used a peice of perf board and a wire-wrap socket. I filed the pins on
the socket a bit so it would plug into a 16-pin (74ls158?) socket on the
xl's motherboard. It looked a LOT nicer than the dead bug version and
used fewer parts than ICD's version. Saved two headers and a bit of ribbon
cable.
Regards,
Jeff
In <3BE2162E.F173AE12(a)mail.verizon.net>et>, on 11/01/01
at 10:42 PM, Eric Chomko <vze2wsvr(a)verizon.net> said:
But let's face it, I've also seen a hack
that added functionality that
had a TTL chip epoxied back-to-back with pins sticking up in the air and
wires going all over. Looked like a nasty spider. On the same token I
have seen a daughter card plugged into a chip slot with a few wires going
to a pin row header and all daughter card wires neatly aligned. The
latter looked so good, in a way it looked better than a machine made
board.
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