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I know this is snarky (and I don't mean to be honest!) But are you going to fix the "Peninsula" typo found in the original? https://mashable.com/2017/04/06/nintendo-typo-legend-of-zelda-penninsula/

what? food number? O.o

*sniffle. Forced to work today. Could not do turkeyday this year.

Slick, I will keep that in mind.

Forgive my ignorance, but wouldn't any day that you make a nice fatty meat meal, be the ideal time to make and eat yorkshire pudding? Otherwise, you are throwing the drippings out for no damned reason?

If I wanted to have a flex cable interface card made, who would I talk to? If I do not win Globeron's auction (or worse, he cannot ship it internationally at the price point stated), I will need one should I embark down building a PEB. My electrician skills are abhorrent. Much better at planing material and fab requirements, than handling an iron.

Flash plugin on Linux: Try one of the FOSS alternatives. There's a huge pile of them. (like gnash and lightspark.) Unless chrome changes their plugin API, they should still work.

Indeed. It leaves plenty of room to deal with potential file system types instead, or to deal with different kinds of media. EG-- instead of focusing on supporting just SDCard media, support USB instead. That gives you SDCard (via adapter), USB stick, USB floppy disk drive, USB CDrom, etc.

I share the same sentiment. (And have watched with disgust as hardware has become "McHardware" over the past 30 years.) Say what you will about vintage tech being clunky, slow, and power hungry; Those things could literally take an actual literal beating, and still work just fine. (You could bludgeon someone to death with an authentic model M, and it would work just fine afterward! Even still caked in blood and gore! Not that I suggest such a practice mind, just the reality that it could withstand that is pretty damned impressive.) I am not certain if I will be able to manufacture a PEB or not, but should I succeed (since I have placed a bid on Globeron's PEB, and so far, nobody else has bid...), If I succeed and it works, I have been contemplating mailing the resulting product to you, simply because I know you would enjoy it.

Is it the MECC version?

I should go searching for a suitable old DOS machine. I have some parts laying around the house still that I just could not bear to part with, like my old ISA AWE32. (No, it is not for sale.)

I rather like that this community has very talented people in it. It's one of the things compelling me to contribute to it however I can. I like watching talented people make amazing things, and if I can help that process, it makes me happier. It's also just plain fun to get old hardware to do new things; Like yourself, I dont have nostalgia for this system, as I never owned one. (I am far to young. I got to enjoy x86's rise to prominence as a child instead. I can make old DOS machines get up and do an Irish jig. Not so much on the TI I have been prodding at. I'll get the hang of it though.)

Well. I bid on Globeron's peb. Ebay returned the hit in a normal search i was running for the flex interface card and nobody had bid. If i somehow win the auction i will have a complete toybox.

If not, i know for sure that walmart's onn brand shoebox recorder just works. No fiddling. (Its a rebranded jansen recorder) no tone control, but its not needed.

Revisions to the original design (other than for purely fabrication-friendly reasons, as stated) are not the purpose of this exercise, but can be produced quickly and easily once the work is completed. The purpose for this exercise is so that such new devices can be designed quickly and easily, as suitable digital reference information (and paper print versions as well) will be available to guide product design. Putting a knockout on would require modification to the PEB's front plastic plate as well. I would also need dimensions for the desired i2C display, so that an appropriate fitting and mounting arrangement could be implemented. Right now, I am focused on getting this thing modeled as accurately as possible. Producing "RepliPEBs" with fancy new features becomes plausible AFTER reverse-engineering the original.

SO-- Helo has been busy giving me more data to work with, and since I had today off, I have been busy modeling my little brains out. Not complete-- Many features are still missing! However, it is starting to look a bit like a PEB. The plastic front bit is not quite true-to-life. The back is just flat. (The real thing has all these little material-saving wells and such inside) I needed it for fitting, so I made the front look pretty and all. Where the main frame component makes that "reduction", the resulting flat pattern has a very odd looking profile... That "Swept" cutout area is necessary to produce the "cleanly met seam" that comes to be after forming: You might be wondering what the round hole is there for-- That is bend relief allowance in the corner, and is there to prevent fatigue in the metal during forming, since I lack a super-duper fancy hydraulic forming press. The original part has a much more ... difficult... to manufacture corner there. This one will be more friendly to some random jerk (like me) to form manually. The dimensions are identical otherwise, just not as cosmetically pleasing. I am drawing attention to it because I am not sure exactly how to define that on the print. In the aviation industry, I would just say "Make a 1:1 mylar print, and have them lay the part on top." but that isn't really an option in our little community. It is logically the result of computing the intersection line of if those two bends continued through each other when folded, then mapped to where they would be in the unfolded view. (my software has some nifty features for doing that, so I dont have to do fancy scary trig functions.) If this feature is not cut precisely, the corner will not close cleanly. I am open to suggestions...

One idea I have been toying with, is a "PEBestal" Basically, a little pedestal that sits underneath the 99/4A, which connects to the sidecar bus on the side with a little wall, and which has a compartment inside under the 99 that has room for a single PEB card, and has various other useful thinks integrated (Speech, 32k, etc).

I am rather spoiled by the 101 key layout, including the T-shaped arrow key array. Diamond config, like you have in your mockups, would make me a sad panda. As for the SysRq button.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_request Basically, it's a special hotkey added for those "Hey, I need a special button not on the keyboard for some radical task!" moments. Like "Turn my TSR's super special awesome mode on/off" kind of thing. Linux kernel uses it for a magic keypress combo, for instance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key People were naturally confused by it, because it has no direct function in and of itself, unlike shift, control, alt, or escape keys. Too bad they put it in such an odd place on the keyboard.

Is shipping international? If so, I will TOTALLY buy that PEB. It would give poor Helocast his weekends back. (As is, the guy has been very dutiful in feeding me measurements of his PEB. If I buy yours, I can finish the work, and he can have his life back. I totally appreciate all he's done so far, but I don't want to trouble him or be a bother. Since this is an auction listing, consider this a "I will buy it if you ship international, give me a price via PM" kinda thing.)

*fond memories of EEP-bombing the macs at school...* (Old macs would queue up the volume up/down presses, if you held one button down and pressed the other repeatedly. So, hold vol-up, and pound on vol-down. that will turn the sound to zero, but queue up lots of silent EEP plays. do this for several minutes. THEN, hold in vol-down, and do vol-up presses. As many as you want, the more the merrier! When you are ready, just let go of the buttons and walk away. The mac will start playing the silent eeps, and you will be out of the lab, and down the hall before it starts playing REALLY LOUD EEPS, for an extended period of time. Lots of fun!)

depending on the firmware version, he might need a game for that. Lego Indy sits on my shelf for this very purpose. I occasionally still get asked about it. (homebrew channel.) Really, homebrew channel + MMM and the various emulator launchers make the Wii a joy to keep around. It will even do DosBox! (with USB keyboard and mouse attached!) For the price this guy paid, he can't go wrong. (For my Wii Dosbox setup, I used one of the many DOS based game menu launchers with a "loading" area mounted as drive Y:. Since you can point to batch files, and dosbox allows batch operation of its internal commands, you can for instance, do floppy booter games and the like that way easily from a list. Fun times.

You gotta be careful with some of those authentic IBM machines, especially in the mid 90s era systems. Some of them are MicroChannel architecture, and will make you a sad panda unless you know exactly what you are doing, and happen to have some of the rare cards needed for that slot type. Your best bet is one of the "mainstream" clone makers. Compaq, and Co. for instance. (Too many to give an exhaustive list; just that the clone makers are more likely to give you a pleasurable experience, unless you know exactly what you are doing.) The Compaq Portable 1 is an XT class system though, not AT. (8088 processor, NOT '286+) Do you really want a luggable? There were several produced that were full CGA/EGA, and had a 286 in them, like the Compaq portable III.

So my nanopeb arrived. The seller shipped it inappropriately, but it arrived unharmed. (No static bag, no air pillows! yeach) I loaded it with some disk images and it works. any killer apps I simply have to try?

Given the average prices on Ebay for that class of system, Maybe it's time to sell?

It's the CRPG that adamantyr is making. As I understand it, it is currently in closed beta testing. It requires a 1MB SAMS card to run. (Or you could run it in emulation...) Here's a link to the thread, second to last page (since it has video.)