Help Needed With Sinclair 1000 - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

2 Nov 1998

somebody gave me this computer who built it and the power supply into a
wooden case, complete with a composite tube. this person also hacked a
keyboard on it, complete with some crude circuitry on a tinybreadboard that
was mounted very haphazardly on a piece of plexiglass along with the keyboard!
ah, homebuilt computing at its finest. however, it doesnt work at the moment
so once i find schematics, i'll start isolating the problem. 

david

In a message dated 11/2/98 10:32:14 PM US Eastern Standard Time,
roblwill(a)usaor.net writes:

...
  Part of it may have been the dippy little keyboard
that it had, or the fact
  that it only came with 1k or RAM (standard).  If it had a larger keyboard,
  instead of the tiny plastic membranes, then the idea *MAY* have caught on. 

  I wonder if ther'd be some way to either put a new keyboard on it (say,
  from a laptop), or somehow make it into an expansion unit for something
  like a TRS-80, almost like a CoCo cartridge.  