Price guide for vintage computers

From: UberTechnoid_at_home.com <(UberTechnoid_at_home.com)>
Date: Fri Nov 2 14:18:06 2001

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_at_mail.verizon.net>, on 11/01/01
   at 10:42 PM, Eric Chomko <vze2wsvr_at_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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