Re: interesting schematic site

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message
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: heuser.marcus@freenet.de wrote:
:
: > Thats an interesting fellow for sure. He "reverse engineered" (i.e.
: > drawing schematics of) a lot of Atari 8 bit hardware, too.
:
: I've done this for several (more obscure) cards myself--it's time-
: consuming to get it right, but sometimes it's the only way.

I've started doing a couple cards and quit, mainly because they
had PALs or GALs and I don't have the necessary equipment to
realize the logic they are set up to accomplish. To simply make
a schematic with the traces into and out of a PAL or GAL is useless.
You really need to know which are fused in and which are fused out.
Otherwise you have nothing, or Nada.  :o)

: > As for the memory card: I wouldn't like the idea of "slaughtering" the
: > card and the SIMMs and the process of building his card is quiet time
: > consuming, I guess. But people in Eastern European countries have less
: > money to spend, normally, and try to invent "home solutions".
: > Especially engineers like him.
:
: But 1MB Apple memory expansions for the IIgs are a dime a dozen,
: and most users have some sitting around...

The cheapest one I've gotten was $5 individually, but have gotten a few
thrown in with a larger lot of other cards, or other items.

: 1MB SIMMs are also a dime a dozen (literally), so if you have the time,
: "slaughtering" some ubiquitous hardware hardly seems like a problem.

Best deal I've gotten here was $0.05 each. Not quite a dime a dozen.

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