Grrr...
It is SO simple...grrr...
Grrr...
Grr...
I'll give it a try, as soon as I have some free time :oP
Anyone willing into a "junior ace" project?
It has some simple milestones:
- 16K RAM if possible
- Reduction of number of ICs without using programable logic
- Single sided board (does not matter how much jumpers I'll have to put
in this beast)
- REMOVABLE keyboard (it is easy to make two single sided boards instead
of just one, because of the size)
- Fits inside the case of Jr. Ace.
http://www.jupiter-ace.co.uk/blankpcb.html
Andrew, since you have the empty case, would you mind taking the photos
of the above link and creating a schematic of dimensions and positions/size
of the holes?
Here I go in another crazy project...Bah :oP I do love to route boards
(small joke: I use an old program called CIRCAD98, and have lots of
pratice with that. Someday in my work, my coleagues were designing a board
for a PIC (bleargh) programmer, in a 10x10 board in Eagle PCB. I told them
why not create a smaller board, using single side only, and they said it was
impossible. I told them it was easy to do, without jumpers. To make a long
story short, they bidded an entire week of lunch on that - If I could route
manually this board, they would pay me a week of lunch. If I lost, I'd pay
their lunches for a week. I spent some two hours routing the board, but I
got it - imagine a board the size of a DIP-40 socket, with some 3 or 4
centimeters more. The board was for 40, 28, 20 and 16 pin PICs, if I'm not
mistaken, and I made it fit inside the DIP-40 socket, along part of the
circuit. I may have this drawing stashed somewhere, and the lunch was fine,
thanks! :oD)
Alexandre, the crazy guy. :oP
PS: Any hams here? PU1BZZ is how I'm called :)