{"id":1276,"date":"2017-10-31T19:36:42","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T19:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/?p=1276"},"modified":"2017-10-31T19:36:42","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T19:36:42","slug":"retrochallenge-201710-last-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/?p=1276","title":{"rendered":"RetroChallenge 2017\/10 \u2013 Last day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So another Retrochallenge comes to a close.<\/p>\n<h2>What did I do lately?<\/h2>\n<p>Well, in the last 24 hours I have tested all of the 74 series chips, with the exception of the 74LS163 (my tester won&#8217;t touch them). All were fine, no problems at all.<\/p>\n<p>I swapped the 74LS 163s around to see if the fault moved. It didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>I swapped the 81LS97s, again to to see if the fault moved. It didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Where are we?<\/p>\n<h2>It&#8217;s hard to tell.<\/h2>\n<p>My newest addition is still not playing ball and I&#8217;m stumped as to why, but, that&#8217;s not the point of Retrochallenge. The point is to dust off this old kit and have a play and I&#8217;ve certainly done that \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Roll on RC2018\/4<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So another Retrochallenge comes to a close. What did I do lately? Well, in the last 24 hours I have tested all of the 74 series chips, with the exception of the 74LS163 (my tester won&#8217;t touch them). All were fine, no problems at all. I swapped the 74LS 163s around to see if the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/?p=1276\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">RetroChallenge 2017\/10 \u2013 Last day<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[47,98,127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c93-blog-posts","category-retrochallenge","category-retrochallenge-201710"],"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\/1276","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=1276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1277,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276\/revisions\/1277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}