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Gigatron in the frozen Northeast US

Posted: 18 Feb 2022, 20:20
by bjchapm
Hello, all!

Here's a quick picture of my Gigatron, built from a kit offered by RetroTechLyfe here in the US. Thank you to Marcel and Walter and everyone else in this amazing community. I haven't done anything like this since I was a kid (I had an OSI Challenger way back in the day), and it has just been a complete blast. My gigatron did not work at first (or second, or third) power-up, but with patience and the documents on this site, I found the bad solder joint and it works perfectly now.

Next step is to figure out how to use my Arduino to load more programs on to it - but I am just blown away by how much this can do already. Congratulations to everyone involved!

Very best wishes,

Ben
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Re: Gigatron in the frozen Northeast US

Posted: 18 Feb 2022, 21:09
by bmwtcu
Congrats!

Re: Gigatron in the frozen Northeast US

Posted: 19 Feb 2022, 10:48
by at67
Well done, board looks great.

Re: Gigatron in the frozen Northeast US

Posted: 20 Feb 2022, 20:08
by Hans61
Very nice. Welcome. RetroTechLyfe uses different colors for the blinking lights, great.