Robotron Surprise!

Buzzman

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I had a pretty crappy (as usual) day at work. Was looking forward to coming home and working on some boards. But first I had to stop by one of my storage units and pick something up for someone. While I was there, I found a bunch of stuff I had completely forgotten I had. I found this box that said, "Working Joust boardset" on the outside of it.

So I threw it in the car and headed home. Finally got around to opening it up a bit ago and took a look. The boards are real dusty and are not in that good of shape. Caps swelling, transistors bent completely over, ribbon cables look suspect, and the ROM board has FIVE different manufacturers of 2732s on it with numbers 1-12 "blue" written on them.

I hooked it to the crappy K4600 monitor I'm working on and applied some power and BAM! Working Robotron boardset! It didn't have a sound board with it, but I've got plenty of those. Definitely turned the day around.

I'm calling it a gift from the eclipse. ;)

Buzz
 

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Hate to ruin it for you, but it does say "working Joust boardset" and not "working Robotron boardset". So, something is still wrong under the Sun ... :p ... are your eyes OK? Didn't look at the bright thing in the sky without correct glasses, did you?

Both are nice scores though ... LOL. Congrats - a working boardset is a wonderful thing.

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