{"id":1084,"date":"2016-01-31T20:26:11","date_gmt":"2016-01-31T20:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/?p=1084"},"modified":"2016-01-31T20:26:11","modified_gmt":"2016-01-31T20:26:11","slug":"retrochallenge-2016-end-of-the-line-all-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/?p=1084","title":{"rendered":"Retrochallenge 2016 \u2013 End of the line. All change."},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, another RC comes to an end an if there’s any truth in the saying “It’s not the winning, it’s the taking apart” then all is well. If, however, it is the winning then we have another “success deficit” on our hands.<\/p>\n

So far I have the VT-180 in pieces. I looked at a few signals on the video board and compared them to those marked on the schematic but they all looked fine (see the photos).<\/p>\n

\"160116-IMG_20160116_181840\"<\/a> \"160116-IMG_20160116_181754\"<\/a> \"160116-IMG_20160116_181725\"<\/a>So next up I wondered if the 2114 static RAM chips have failed. I’ve seen them go on my DEC Rainbow and also on a Commodore PET a friend of mine has, so it’s quite common really. It would explain the garbled output.<\/p>\n

One thing I like about DEC kit is it’s well made. The downside is that they used a lot<\/strong> of solder and getting chips out of any DEC board I’ve ever worked on is very difficult. So, as the last few hours of RC2016-1 tick away I have3 chips out, new ones on order and crud to clean out of the holes in order to add sockets.<\/p>\n

The nice thing about Retrochallenge is there’ll be another one passing by any minute now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, another RC comes to an end an if there’s any truth in the saying “It’s not the winning, it’s the taking apart” then all is well. If, however, it is the winning then we have another “success deficit” on our hands. So far I have the VT-180 in pieces. I looked at a few … Continue reading Retrochallenge 2016 \u2013 End of the line. All change.<\/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-1084","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\/1084","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=1084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1085,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions\/1085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}