hacks and hacks! (was Re: Price guide for vintage computers

From: Eric Chomko <vze2wsvr_at_verizon.net>
Date: Tue Nov 6 20:42:02 2001

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_at_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_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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