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by David R.
Sat Oct 09, 2021 1:28 am
Forum: Official Announcements
Topic: Change of product direction, good and bad news!
Replies: 772
Views: 310401

Change of product direction, good and bad news!

My thanks to all here who counsel patience.  I second your emotion.  To those who are worried, please chill.  Here's an idea:  if this is going to become a kit, perhaps we should busy ourselves with figuring out where to source discrete and readily available IC components from around the world so t...
by David R.
Mon Oct 04, 2021 1:04 am
Forum: CX16 General Chat
Topic: Hello from the Mississippi Gulf Coast
Replies: 4
Views: 1605

Hello from the Mississippi Gulf Coast

I built my ZX-81 from a kit.  I also had several TS-1000 machines and 16K RAM packs that I acquired at clearance as the model was dying out on the shelves.  Good times.  I built one of those old TS-1000s into a Bud slope-front case using a TI-99/4A keyboard bought surplus for about ten dollars, and...
by David R.
Mon Oct 04, 2021 12:25 am
Forum: Official Announcements
Topic: Change of product direction, good and bad news!
Replies: 772
Views: 310401

Change of product direction, good and bad news!

Hi, David, Sorry to hear of the changes you and the rest of the project team have been going through.  It sounds like you are all handling it well, but things change - they always do.  It's never easy getting a project like this off the ground.  I'm in favor of a "Phase 1+" X16 kit (with all compon...
by David R.
Sun Oct 03, 2021 10:27 pm
Forum: CX16 General Chat
Topic: Hello from the Mississippi Gulf Coast
Replies: 4
Views: 1605

Hello from the Mississippi Gulf Coast

Hi, I'm David.  No, not <em>that </em>David (i.e., definitely not the 8-bit Guy).  So, why am I here?  It's because I'm interested in the X16 project, and I've always been interested in computer programming.  Never got into Commodore (had a ZX-81 an Actrix DS, and a CoCo 2 back in the day).  I'm an...