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thirty-two
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Developer ∪ Designer, pixel artist, digital archaeologist of Sierra On-Line games, retro IBM PCjr developer, baker. An Ernie in a world of Berts. (They/them)
Thanksgiving week is a good week to disassemble/clean/keycap-swap on your favorite keyboard/daily-driver. Here’s mine, with fresh Macintosh inspired keycaps.
Was cleaning/consolidating boxes and found an old Surface RT I haven’t touched basically since it released. But, there is hope! There are couple of Linux distros that can run on it, one jailbroken. Going to try postmarketos first and then maybe raspi os. I wonder if I could get it to just boot straight into dosbox like dosbian and have a little DOS tablet around the house.
Now to start wiring.
There are some things I would design a little differently, if I were to do a round two, but for a one-off from parts I’ve had lying around for almost a decade now, I’m happy how it’s come together. I’ll play with it a bit before figuring out what, if anything, needs adjustment. I definitely got a little overly zealous with tolerances (which might a whole personality type at this point in my life).
Mounted the IBM EGA card and IBM PGC card. Really happy with the way these both turned out.
I need to dig through my video card box and see what I want for the last display of the set. I *think* I still have a 3dfx Voodoo card paired with a trident VGA card. But I might have to”loaned” that out.
So I could either do a 3dfx Voodoo 2 (or a voodoo banshee, although that gives me feels). That the set will be complete. It’s nice to have these out of static sleeve and boxes in the closet.
I know I should print little test harnesses first to make sure my designs work/tolerances are accurate. But sometimes it’s satisfying to just print the whole thing and see if it works first try.
The mounting bracket for the IBM PGC.
After many a delay and 3d-printing procrastination, I finally got my original IBM Monochrome/Printer and IBM CGA graphics cards mounted and hung my workspace. For the mount I eventually settled on an interlocking mount that pinches the backboard and is essentially just an 8-bit ISA slot.
It was a fun project to finally finish, even though the next one has a IBM PGC, a two-slot monstrosity, that I’m going to have to figure out how to properly support.