Tronic
Well-known member
Atari Quantum Reproduction - my little contribution
I know a few people have known about me doing this, and some people won't care at all, but I thought some may be interested in my progress. This means alot to me because it took me so long to complete.
I have always wanted a Quantum, like some others on here and during my past 10 years of collecting I have seen a few up for sale, but never went after them because of price and priorities. I did think about using some old skills I have though to make one of the harder items to find... The Quantum Main PCB.
I used to design and layout PCB's about 8 years ago for my job, but kept a copy of the software and still dabbled with it making an OBDII interface for my car, and drew up a few small boards for video games that I never sent off but did for fun anyway.
Then last year I thought I would look at the Quantum board and see if there was enough info to actually completely reproduce the board. I found numerous pictures on the PCB from different places, had the schematics and parts list. It appeared like there was and I talked it over with my wife to see what she thought of me taking this project on. I knew it was going to take alot of time, and sometimes alot of my mental capacity to complete. She said go for it, she would allow me time and also push me to get it done. The problem was I didn't have an original board to use.
So...
After a year of burying myself in this project...
It's done, I have a working reproduced brand new Quantum PCB
I know a few people have known about me doing this, and some people won't care at all, but I thought some may be interested in my progress. This means alot to me because it took me so long to complete.
I have always wanted a Quantum, like some others on here and during my past 10 years of collecting I have seen a few up for sale, but never went after them because of price and priorities. I did think about using some old skills I have though to make one of the harder items to find... The Quantum Main PCB.
I used to design and layout PCB's about 8 years ago for my job, but kept a copy of the software and still dabbled with it making an OBDII interface for my car, and drew up a few small boards for video games that I never sent off but did for fun anyway.
Then last year I thought I would look at the Quantum board and see if there was enough info to actually completely reproduce the board. I found numerous pictures on the PCB from different places, had the schematics and parts list. It appeared like there was and I talked it over with my wife to see what she thought of me taking this project on. I knew it was going to take alot of time, and sometimes alot of my mental capacity to complete. She said go for it, she would allow me time and also push me to get it done. The problem was I didn't have an original board to use.
So...
After a year of burying myself in this project...
It's done, I have a working reproduced brand new Quantum PCB



