- I had some stuck on a Famicom and it just crumbled. I'm impressed the Atari one came off cleanly.
- I was happy to make it somewhat modular, so at least the original keyboard (and Tandy bodge board) has survived intact. The machine was never original in my possession – the previous owner has done a lot of modifications to it - so I feel like I am carrying on with his wishes rather than tinkering with Tandy's.
I do want to still replace the membrane/backplate inside the keyboard with low-profile switches as I did to my PC-6001mkII (https://www.leadedsolder.com/2024/11/26/pc6001mkII-keyboard-...), but that involves a lot of picky measuring for mounting holes, outlines, key switches, etc and you can tell from the article that accurate measuring is not one of my strongest suits :)
- You can even write networked code in it now if you have a FujiNet.
https://forums.atariage.com/topic/312941-fujinet-bindings-fo.../
- bmonkey325 60 days agoDrool Emoji....
- Tools! Pinecil, bench power supplies, battery compressed-air blowers, chip pullers, EPROM programmers, RAM testers, disk drive cleaners, video capture gear, Greaseweazle. Lots of relatively inexpensive stuff can enable whole new projects.
- This is an excellent writeup, and is basically how I figured owning one of these was going to go. My own current bête noire is a Sega Teradrive with what feels like occasional inter-layer shorts.
- Hey, thank you! I will add that the MacIvory is probably the easiest Symbolics system to actually own and run. The full-size systems are VMEbus tanks, and some can be incredibly loud.
On the other hand, I hear from others that Symbolics had the best software, even if the TI Explorer series may be more liveable.
- Hello from Canada! I post some links once in awhile when I get a chance, but I read the site at least once a day. It's a great community.
- At first I thought this was going to be a remake of Freeverse's SimStapler.
- Great as always. Fantastic level of effort here.
- Sad, but not unexpected. You can still find them fairly inexpensively in the Japanese market, but as far as I know the tablet will always be in Japanese until someone devises a way to patch it.
- I'm glad someone else did this first; I was afraid I was going to have to read Inside Macintosh and learn to write an extension that modifies Finder menus.