azog | September 28, 2009
Got tired of the til311 clock sitting around nakid, so I tried to put it in an enclosure: This is a small cigar box, almost just the perfect size to fit the PCB. The board was about 0.5″ too big on the width, so I had to decide what to do: shave off the PCB, [...]
azog | September 16, 2009
Someone gave me some sort of DEC Alpha workstation: A single 3.5″ floppy with room for a small something-or-other. And from the back: Lots of ports: 10baseT, 10base2, AUI, serial, parallel, PS/2 keyboard and mouse, a 50-pin SCSI, and what looks like two PCMCIA slots. The guts aren’t that glamorous. There’s no obvious model number [...]
azog | September 11, 2009
Another “find”, but this time, a guy at work, his mother was gonna put this in a dumpster. His wife wouldn’t let him have it, and when I heard about it, I offered to take it. I have no such barrier to my collecting habit :P And even if I just give it away to [...]
azog | September 8, 2009
Have you ever heard of, or seen, a til-311 display? These are interesting “mid-retro” displays. They can display hex digits (0-F), have both a left- and right- decimal point, and blanking and strobe inputs. The logic driver is built-in, which is the tiny circuit you see near the notch. Driving these displays is very easy [...]