TI 980B picture

As requested, I have posted a picture of my recently aquired TI980B at... http://penguincentral.com/retrocomputing/pix/ti980b/02cj003a.jpg I am still in the cleaning/checkout phase. I have not applied power to it yet. I need to get a better digital camera. Right now, I'm using an Apple QuickTake 150, but I don't have the close-up lens. It would cost new battery pack and download cable. :-( As it is, I've taken hundreds of excellent outdoor shots with it. It's awful for indoor photos where detail is important. I think its default minimum focal length is about 24" and the flash is so bright it causes spots on reflective surfaces (the closeup lens also has a flash diffuser). I might try to rig up a 2' string and a flash diffuser to at least not take pictures that will be clearly outside the boundaries of the camera's physical limitations, but even so, I still need a new camera. My current favorite is a Kodak DC290. The only thing I've seen with as much manual control that's newer is the DC4800. Comparing them side-by-side, I still think I want the DC290. Even got a fistful of 16MB CF cards to go in it! As for the TI 980B, with the exception of the very scary, undocumented, rack-mounted 2-square-feet of prototyping board that was cabled into the DMA slot, it looks very clean. I have no idea what this peripheal was supposed to do, and since it was stored at a high-school electronics shop (which is being cleaned out this year which is how I got the TI in the first place), it's covered in bent pins and broken wires. I also know there are several missing chips (they came in the bottom of the box - some jumper blocks with jumper resistors and a few 74181s, at least). I doubt I'll ever be able to discern what this homemade peripheral ever did, so I expect to photograph it and recycle the chips into other classic machines (there's some Motorola RTL chips on there! Perfect for my attempts to replicate a DEC W706/W707 if I ever get that far). If I can get my camera happy making closeups, I'll see about adding some pictures of the CPU and memory boards to the pic of the front panel. -ethan __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - live college hoops coverage http://sports.yahoo.com/