by CheffoJeffo
18. February 2010 09:26
Last night I spent 4 hours working on Unknown-1 (ProTip: The polarity for C312 is misprinted on the solder side of the board. It is correct on the parts side of the board), only to end up with things worse than when I started. It's bad enough that DigiKey shipped the wrong 820u capacitor (which I managed to make fit) and that I totally missed a big 220u that I don't have a replacement for, but the hula remains and now I have convergence problems. I guess it's about time that I learned to properly set the convergence, but that definitely wasn't on my roadmap when I decided to fix Unknown-1.
The good news is that the doorbell just rang and I found my friendly neighbourhood Canada Post man smiling -- "This one is actually for you and they didn't ding you for any taxes or duties". Normally, the packages are for Deb and come with taxes owing. He caught the "little kid seeing the Giant Tinkertoy set at Christmas" gleam in my eyes and said "I guess you've been waiting for this one."
Damned right I have.
Without further adoo, I present Exidy 440 COLLEX'N kit, serial number 027, resting on the kickass t-shirt that Mike sent with the kit.
It is going to be a really long day ... today is feature-lock day for the next version of VirtGate and I promised that I would let Kevin (and Gilby) help me install the kit.
This fun will have to wait until tonight, which is, I guess, good news, since it gives me time to pick up the "6-pack of your favourite beer" that Mike recommends as part of the installation process.
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