{"id":1057,"date":"2015-12-31T20:45:01","date_gmt":"2015-12-31T20:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/?p=1057"},"modified":"2015-12-31T20:45:01","modified_gmt":"2015-12-31T20:45:01","slug":"retrochallenge-2016-setting-up-my-stall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/?p=1057","title":{"rendered":"Retrochallenge 2016 – Setting up my stall."},"content":{"rendered":"

On the eve of ‘challenge I have retrieved my VT-180 from the “shelf of good intentions”. I have taken photos of the two main boards and powered the machine up to see what happens.<\/p>\n

\"151231-IMG_20151231_112224\"<\/a> \"151231-IMG_20151231_112314\"<\/a>The first board basically the Z80 board. The second is a VT-100 terminal (if I remember correctly) and they talk to each other over the flat ribbon cable in the second photo.<\/p>\n

Hmmm.<\/h2>\n

At the moment I don’t have the processor board in place as I think the VT side should come up without it. However, the current state of play is less than ideal.<\/p>\n

\"151231-IMG_20151231_174248\"<\/a>Roll on Tomorrow \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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On the eve of ‘challenge I have retrieved my VT-180 from the “shelf of good intentions”. I have taken photos of the two main boards and powered the machine up to see what happens. The first board basically the Z80 board. The second is a VT-100 terminal (if I remember correctly) and they talk to … Continue reading Retrochallenge 2016 – Setting up my stall.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[47,115,114,33,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c93-blog-posts","category-dec-vt-180","category-digital-equipment-corporation","category-c84-retro-tech","category-retrochallenge-20161"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"andy","author_link":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/?author=1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1058,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions\/1058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}