For several months, not much progress has happened on the TVT. An attention-challenged collector, I’m always being tempted by other things. I ended up making […]
Year: 2016
Preparing and etching the Mark-8 CPU clone board
Okay so on my last post I had tweaked artwork and set up for trying to make a copy of my Mark-8 CPU board. I […]
Mark-8 Clone Project Begins
Christmas is done (yay!) and now I have a bit of free time before we go back to work for vintage computer projects. And what […]
Mark-8 Minicomputer: ACQUIRED!
If you’re a collector like me who lives on a budget, there are realities you have to accept. You’re never going to own an Apple-1, […]
Wiring Up the Keyboard
Okay, this is where the rubber hits the road, sort of. With the encoder tested out working, now we begin the laborious process of rewiring […]
Testing out the ASCII encoder
With Don Lancaster’s first, primitive ASCII encoder built, it was only natural that I wanted to test it out. Wiring up the keyboard is going […]
Building the ASCII encoder
Wow, that got addictive. Thought I’d just add some of the resistors, a bit at a time, solder in… here and there when I had […]
Vintage Resistor Haul
So yeah, here I was thinking I had it all covered and was starting to build my ASCII encoder. I had bought a slew of […]
Building a ‘brute force’ ASCII encoder for my TV Typewriter
We don’t tend to give keyboards a second thought here in 2016. They are ubiquitous and cheap. You can get a brand new one for […]
TV Typewriter Boards – Cutting
With my first test board behind me, and applying everything I learned previously, I embarked on creating the first full set of boards I needed […]