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Re: Reproduction Altair 88-UIO Universal I/O Board
Posted: March 31st, 2024, 8:50 am
by AltairClone
Great work!
Mike
Re: Reproduction Altair 88-UIO Universal I/O Board
Posted: April 1st, 2024, 7:28 pm
by tep392
AltairClone wrote:Great work!
Mike
Thank you for all the help you gave throughout the project!
Re: Reproduction Altair 88-UIO Universal I/O Board
Posted: April 4th, 2024, 11:45 am
by toml_12953
tep392 wrote:toml_12953 wrote:Attempt to upload Excel BOM for 88-UIO board.
It looks like some have fallen out of stock. It's a constant battle for us vintage computer enthusiasts.
Yes, it certainly is! At least Digi-Key will ship the parts when they do come in.
I ordered the out-of-stock parts on eBay, though, since I'm notoriously impatient!
Re: Reproduction Altair 88-UIO Universal I/O Board
Posted: April 7th, 2024, 8:31 am
by tep392
I built up a production board and it's working perfectly!
Re: Reproduction Altair 88-UIO Universal I/O Board
Posted: April 7th, 2024, 6:09 pm
by AltairClone
Lookin’ good!
Re: Reproduction Altair 88-UIO Universal I/O Board
Posted: April 8th, 2024, 8:20 am
by Wayne Parham
Sweet!
Re: Reproduction Altair 88-UIO Universal I/O Board
Posted: April 8th, 2024, 4:46 pm
by toml_12953
The boards arrived today. Beautiful! This should be an easy build. The solder mask is right on and all the holes look good.
Thank you for all your work to produce this wonderful board!
Re: Reproduction Altair 88-UIO Universal I/O Board
Posted: April 8th, 2024, 9:23 pm
by tep392
toml_12953 wrote:The boards arrived today. Beautiful! This should be an easy build. The solder mask is right on and all the holes look good.
Thank you for all your work to produce this wonderful board!
Thanks Tom! It is easy to build. There's just a ton of solder joints, roughly 700.
Re: Reproduction Altair 88-UIO Universal I/O Board
Posted: April 16th, 2024, 8:33 am
by tep392
I added an FDC+ to my system and connected a Percom drive (Atari version). I had to disconnect the Atari interface board and add a ribbon cable from the drives to the FDC+. Spent some time copying disk images to floppy. Now my system is cooking! Dual minidisks, cassette deck, 64K RAM plus ROM with only a 4 slot backplane!
Re: Reproduction Altair 88-UIO Universal I/O Board
Posted: April 16th, 2024, 9:01 am
by AltairClone
Cool setup!