Yea its been since September of 2017 since I actually did anything, but I was re-arranging my shelf of stuff the other day and said "hey you do not have any projects that are paying you money for a couple weeks, put down the brand new (to me) coco 3 and work on the Atari!" In my last update I cut a gigantic hole in the front of my case to accommodate the LCD that goes with the integrated SIO2SD, since then I have trimmed it out, added a acrylic front and replaced the 65XE name badge. The badge
in this post I am going to take a fairly nice 65XE case, and put a big arse hole right in the face of it, lets put our big boy pants on! This of course is for the LCD Screen of the integrated SIO2SD First I am going to place the LCD screen roughly where I want it, on the 65XE the most appropriate place for a standard screen seems to be right in the middle of the case badge, from there I will roughly mark it with a pencil and a square then drill out the corners well away from my li
Today I got a fat box of crap from mouser, 512k Sram, stuff for SIO2SD and connectors wooter I still haven't laid out PCB's yet cause I had to make some last min alterations to what packages of components I got, and I wanted to lay hands on them before committing (that and being a combination of stupid busy and lazy) I did get a handful of connectors one was to make up the custom av cable, the core of which is some fat honkin off brand monster like stuff for component video, each video
Nothing too much today, I have the schematics all drawn up for the mods I want to do (video, internal SIO2SD, 512k ram, dual pokey), going to review those tonight and work on the pcb anyway far enough along I can go ahead and order a pile o parts ... side tangent, when I was younger there were a couple, one stop electronics shops around ... like mini digikeys, I would drive downtown hope they had everything I wanted, and most the time they did, and drive back ... now I order online cause those
I got on it this weekend with this machine (and I am tired of scrubbing). I scrubbed the case down with heavy duty decreasing cleaner (says to dilute with water, bah who has time for that) and a bunch of paper towels and rags and a brush. That was fun once I did that I tore apart the keyboard, and did the same on each individual key, even more fun .. Friday afternoon I hit the dollar tree and got 3 aluminum baking pans large enough to hold everything, 6 quarts of 3% hydrogen peroxide and a b
Having worked all weekend to meet a deadline (great thing about engineering, flexible schedule bad thing about engineering, hard as nails deadlines) and most of Monday spent doing yard work and prepping for the eclipse photography session my wife dove deep into (and I am glad for that, she needs a more involved hobby) along with prior commitments, I hardly had a chance to do anything to the 65XE. the main input filter cap seemed a little sketch and there was some corrosion around that area I
So I get home this evening and sitting in my workbench chair out in the garage, is this box that looks small and looks like someone punched it, great vibes. Adding on to those good feelings I open it up and see a bunch of shredded up junk mail as packing material. Luckily the ebay seller was not a complete moron and the machine itself was encased in fairly thick styrofoam. At this point I am filled with half optimism and half dread, did I just buy a money pit? or did I just stake a pretty dar
Almost three years ago I did a recap job in trade for a Atari 65XE computer, it sat in the trunk of my car for darn near a year, then one day with a baby on the way I am sitting there looking at this thing, which I had never even taken out of its box, and sold it here on Atariage for what I had invested into it ... 40 bucks. Fast forward pretty much two years later, I catch a deal on a untested Atari 400 computer. I tore it apart cleaned it up, upgraded it to 48k, added composite out and inst
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