Sorry about the headline. When I get excited, my German heritage sneaks out. But godammit, it’s justifed. Okay, so the first attempt at creating PCBs for the Zolatron 64 6502-based homebrew computer was not an unalloyed success. I never got as far as testing the backplane, serial board and VIA board because of a monumental screw-up on the main processor… Read more »
History isn’t just about dates and the events that get memorialised in statues. Far more fascinating is the personal and the quotidian. A thumbprint left in an ordinary ceramic bowl is a more direct connection to the lived experiences of people the past than any number of crowns and sceptres. And I think there’s an aspect of even recent history… Read more »
Twice now I’ve declared my SmartParallel project completed, and twice it has proven to be faulty – or, at least, difficult. I’m still plugging away at it (more on that soon), but in the meantime I really wanted to be able to print out 6502 assembly code listings on my Epson MX-80 F/T III dot matrix printer. And then I… Read more »