A year ago I acquired a Southwest Technical Products Corp. CT-1024 TV
Typewriter II. It was a basket case. The main board was purchased as just a
bare board and the original owner had used what ever parts he had. (SWTPC
clipped a corner on bare boards they sold without a kit of parts.) The
keyboard was an old Keytronics unit.
I wanted to restore it to "factory" condition. My brother had just given me
a nice Metcal soldering station so stripped the main board of all parts and
only lifted a few pads.
Over the next 6 months I collected a complete set of parts. In the last
month I got serious about this project and I have finished except for a new
clear acrylic plastic case.
This unit is now closer to "factory" condition then when it was assembled in
1976 or 1977. All of the ICs are the correct part (7474 not a 74LS74
substitute.) The capacitors new but are the same type as the original. They
tend to be smaller in size then the 1975 versions. I was able to get all new
Molex connectors.
There was a recent flame war on what is new and what is original but I think
this restoration improved this classic computer terminal.
Here are some links to my CT-1024 TV Typewriter II pages.
http://www.swtpc.com/mholley/CT_1024/CT1024_Index.htm
http://www.swtpc.com/mholley/CT_1024/Restore/CT1024_Restore.htm
Michael Holley
www.swtpc.com/mholley
Thanks to Jay West for providing the web servers for www.swtpc.com.
Received on Sun Mar 16 2003 - 22:52:00 GMT