On 2016-Apr-14, at 7:50 PM, Bill Sudbrink wrote: > Brent Hilpert >> Wow, (that was quick), great job to get one of these working. > > Thanks. Quick? Actually, I've been working on it for several > years. The assembly was fairly quick. If you have all of the > parts in one place, a competent solderer should be able to build > it in a few hours.
(Well it was pretty quick from when you mentioned it here.) I had assumed that you came across a hobbyist unit built in the 70's and was repairing or completing it. Sounds like that's incorrect - this is a new build from scratch?, including the printed circuit boards? I had actually wondered from years ago whether the design ever did work reliably, or whether it might be the sort of magazine project where 1 in 100 might function, e.g. say, the memory chips were an iffy proposition as image sensor. Very pleased to see one work. (The one I assembled I had to return to the owner after assembly, we tried it one afternoon with his IMSAI and/or with the scope interface as I recall, but after that it was out of my purview.) >> (I finally get to see an image from a Cyclops camera - never >> did from the one I assembled.) > > Looks even better live. Come see it at VCF East. (On the north-west coast here - bit of a trip to there).
