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Uhm... so is this thing finally getting produced? Darryl

That's the very same keyboard I am using at the moment. It's connected to my HP desktop PC.

That's the ps2/at keyboard decoder. I want one.

Rotate it 90 degrees. The keyboard appears. Darryl

drool drool...

Turns out he did not buy the one with the missing J, so everything is good. Move along. Nothing to see here. Darryl

Just so I get this right... I see inside the case the connection are like so: red "B+" (guessing +12V) black "SYSTEM GND" yellow (3) "AUDIO IN" clear (4) "VIDEO IN" bare (2) "VIDEO GND" The video connection is easy as they are clearly labeled. The audio connection is the one I am not sure about. So I use the bare wire for the audio gnd, or black? UPDATE: I cut an A/V cable in half and soldered video to clear. And then I twisted left and right audio together and soldered it to yellow. The grounds for both audio and video were soldered to black/bare (which I twisted together). Works perfectly. Darryl

Nice! I will check that out. Darryl

I have my F18A console, but the others are still stock. The RF Modulator itself is a waste in this day and age. It becomes somewhat useful as a straight A/V cable. Darryl

I never thought to look under emulators for Plato disks! lol Darryl

My friend is just now getting into the hobby. he just bought a black TI console on Ebay and realized too late that it is missing the 'J' key. So I am asking the community if there is a sacrificial keyboard that can give up a 'J'? Darryl

So, you tellin' me I need to buy one of those Chinese erasers? Darryl

I ordered some UV LEDs, but they are coming from China and will probably take another two weeks. I plan to solder four of them in series (with a resistor) and power them from an old USB cable. So, putting them out in the sunlight isn't good enough? I can't wait for the slow boat! Darryl

I've looked around in wtech and didn't find ANY Plato disks. I tried to read my disks and an still having floppy drive issues. I hope the disks are still good. Here is a listing of what is written on the labels: PLATO Disks BOX-1 01a Plato Survey Diskette / Basic Skills - Grades 3-8 / Reading Survey - Part 1 Side 1 01b Plato Survey Diskette / Basic Skills - Grades 3-8 / Reading Survey - Part 1 Side 2 02a Plato Survey Diskette / Basic Skills - Grades 3-8 / Mathematics Survey - Side 3 02b Plato Survey Diskette / Basic Skills - Grades 3-8 / Grammar Survey - Side 4 03 Basic Skills - Mathematics / Basic Number Ideas / Numbers 0-9 - PHD 5201 / Counting Numbers - 1.112 04 Basic Skills - Mathematics / Subtraction / Subtraction Skills PHD 5206 / Subtraction Skills I321 05 Basic Skills - Mathematics / Multiplication Skills II - PHD 5209 / Multiplication Skills 6 - 1.432 06 Basic Skills - Math / Geometry and Measurement / Geometry - Basic Concepts / Plane Figures 1 07 Basic Skills - Reading / Making new Words / More Basic Word building PHD 5221 / Verbs Ending in E - 2.122 08 Basic Skills - Reading / Understanding New Words / Dealing With Confusing Words / Specific Meaning In Context 09 Basic Skills - Reading / Understanding What You Read / More Basic Facts & Reading PHD 5233 / Getting Ideas From Pictures / Past, Present, & Future Tense 10 Basic Skills - Reading / Understanding What You Read / Getting the Facts 11 Basic Skills - Reading / Understanding What You Read / Finding What Doesn't Belong 12 Basic Skills - Reading / Understanding What You Read / Ordering Main Events / Replacing Nouns w/Pronouns 13 Basic Skills - Reading / Understanding What You Read 14 Basic Skills - Reading / Understanding What You Read / Remembering More of What You Read / Remembering Details - 2.353 Ph05236 15 Basic Skills - Grammar / Parts of Speech / What is a Noun? 3.111 / What is a Verb? 16 Basic Skills - Grammar / Building and Using Sentences / Phrases & Clauses PHD 5255 / Identifying Phrases 17 Basic Skills - Grammar / Capital Letters & Punctuation / Punctuation PHD 5262 / Colons & Semicolons - 3.423 / Quotation Marks BOX-2 (25 Disks / High School Math) 01 High School Skills - Math / Basic Number Ideas / Basic Number Ideas 1 / Introduction to Sets 02 High School Skills - Math / Basic Number Ideas / Basic Number Ideas 1 / Set Operations 03 High School Skills - Math / Basic Number Ideas / Basic Number Ideas 1 / Odd, Even, Prime & Composite Numbers 04 High School Skills - Math / Basic Number Ideas / Basic Number Ideas 2 / Exponents 05 High School Skills - Math / Basic Number Ideas / Basic Number Ideas 2 / Addition & Subtraction of Integers 06 High School Skills - Math / Basic Number Ideas / Basic Number Ideas 2 / Multiplication & Division of Integers 07 High School Skills - Math / Basic Number Ideas / Basic Number Ideas 2 / Square Roots 08 High School Skills - Math / Basic Number Ideas / Basic Number Ideas 2 / Sets & Variables 09 High School Skills - Math / Math Sentences in One Variable / Math Sentences in One Variable 1 / Monomials 10 High School Skills - Math / Math Sentences in One Variable / Math Sentences in One Variable 1 / Binomials 11 High School Skills - Math / Math Sentences in One Variable / Math Sentences in One Variable 2 / Linear Equations w/One Variable 12 High School Skills - Math / Math Sentences in One Variable / Math Sentences in One Variable 2 / Linear Inequalities With One Variable 13 High School Skills - Math / Math Sentences in One Variable / Math Sentences in One Variable 2 / Quadratic Equations BOX-3 01 High School Skills - Math / Math Sentences in Two Variables / Coordinate Plane 02 High School Skills - Math / Math Sentences in Two Variables / Linear Equations w/Two Variables 03 High School Skills - Math / Math Sentences in Two Variables / Systems of Equations 04 High School Skills - Math / Geometry / Special Angles, Part 1 05 High School Skills - Math / Geometry / Special Angles, Part 2 06 High School Skills - Math / Geometry / Circles, Arcs & Circumferences 07 High School Skills - Math / Geometry / Pythagorean Theorem 08 High School Skills - Math / Measurement / Metric Measurement 09 High School Skills - Math / Measurement / Areas, Part 1 10 High School Skills - Math / Measurement / Areas, Part 2 11 High School Skills - Math / Measurement / Measurement PHD 5279 / Volume - 5.514 12 High School Skills - Math / Special Topics / Special Topics PHD 5280 / Probability - 5.614 Darryl

I seem to be having problems burning EEPROMs. I can’t even read them properly. Do they need to be erased first? Or is there some configuration mode I need to be in? Please help. I have the MiniPRO EPROM burner, and "10PCS AM27C040 -150 27C040 EPROM 4M 27C040-150DC,B12" chips. Darryl

I have a busted RF Modulator, and the thought has been going through my head to mod it. Basically, I want to convert it into a straight A/V cable. It’s a simple mod. Just cut off the RF box, and solder on RCA connectors for audio and composite video. So, before I start cutting, I thought I’d ask the question: Has anybody else considered (or tried) this? Is the video signal in that wire? Is the audio signal in that wire? Can it really be this simple? Darryl

Time to crank up the mold. Darryl

I like to hang out on videohelp forums. One feature I have gotten used to that I miss here is the "jump to last post" option. Videohelp also has a nice feature where you hover over the message and you get some of the text that makes up the first post, or you can also see the last post in a similar fashion. This is all from the topics list. And regarding file attachments, I got stopped trying to upload both illustrator .ai and .eps files. So I had to zip them. And it would be nice to have a shorter URL to get here, such as "http://atariage.com/ti99". As I was designing a nice label for Gazoo's XB2.7 Suite, I wanted to put the URL on the cart label, but it was too weird having "http://atariage.com/forums/forum/119-ti-994a-programming/". Darryl Darryl

I'll check the bios settings. Gonna be real embarrassed if that's it. Darryl

OK, I cleaned the heads on one of the drives. It's a Chinon model FZ-506. I put it back in the PC and started transferring disks. Funny any disk that is not a 360K disk fails at the halfway point. For instance, a 1400 sector disk fails at (or sometimes near) sector 720. A 720 sector disk fails at sector 360. What do you make of that? The good news is that I was able to transfer some of the 360K disks, and partially transfer some of the other disks. Darryl

I just received my cart. Thanks. Haven't tried it yet. Darryl

Even I have one of those. :-) It's a sucker bulb on a hollow-tipped soldering iron. Love that thing. So useful. Darryl

Now *that* is something I'd be interested in! Can you do it? Darryl

Is it hard to get access to the heads to clean them? Do I just reach in the front slot with a qtip? Darryl

Not impossible, just challenging. Take these examples for instance: Darryl