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"Teo Zenios" <teoz_at_neo.rr.com> wrote:
> I have found some great deals on eBay and I have also bid on countless
> auctions that I have lost out to snipers, its just part of the game.
Same here - I tried to get some parts for my logic analyser (pod cables and
grabbers) locally - Agilent wanted ?69 (IIRC) for 20 grabbers, most T&M
equipment dealers wanted at least twice that. I paid $20 including shipping
for a set of 20 grabbers from a seller on Ebay.
I'm also bidding on a pod-to-analyser cable and a pod repair kit (the eejit
that sold me the pods never bothered mentioning that a few of the cables were
damaged to the point of inoperability - I only noticed after I'd left
feedback).
> The equipment I buy gets used, software that's shrink-wrapped gets opened.
> People who pay $10,000 or more for an Apple I board that they put in a glass
> case on the wall are odd to me.
I agree. I bought my BBC Micro (Master 128 variant) to use, not to shove in a
cabinet to be looked at but not touched. They're computers, they're designed
as tools, they should be used not looked at from behind a pane of glass.
What I would like to do is build a replica of the MOS KIM-1 (or Synertek
SYM-1, more likely the latter). I've got a CPU chip, but I'd need to source
some 6530 (or 6532? can't remember the part number perfectly) RIOT chips or
emulate them with an FPGA. As for the keyboard, well, there's always
keyswitches and PCB blanks :)
In case you haven't guessed, I like the 6502 - never really managed to get to
grips with Z80 assembler, but 6502 ASM was easy (no worse than learning PIC16
assembler).
Later.
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Received on Tue Aug 31 2004 - 15:06:43 BST