Gigatron Hackers

at67 wrote: ↑05 Nov 2020, 05:53 There is a limited amount of time that posts remain editable, I think it's 7 days, (Walter would know).

20.000 minutes. I've removed the limit.

Marcel and I dreamt about Steve Wozniak to have a Gigatron. After all, the whole concept of creating hardware as simple as possible, using some clever design tricks, and creating a virtual machine in software, were inspired by Woz' work on designing the Apple (1). Just before Marcel passed away, I s...

The original kit included exactly that part, also from Mouser. So it will work.

No, I don't.

We never made a 4-layer board, it was Dave from EEVblog that made it.

Oh, wow.. JLCPCB charges €23 for 5 boards including shipping to the Netherlands.

Are those black PCB's? They look purple, but that might be just the picture.

I hope you understand, but I cannot give support on Gigatrons bought elsewhere..

The first picture I see of a built Budgetronic Gigatron. Thanks for sharing!

Great solution!

I'm not sure if there are ZIF sockets with smaller pins. I have a few, that have pins that just fit in the holes. You need some force to get it into the board, and the pins need to be perfectly aligned in order to get it in. AFAIK the Budgetronics PCB is the open hardware version of the board, with ...