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Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 🙄

Listening to very old (up to 2011 currently) Open Apple podcasts, and they have a listener question I've asked for years:
Why is there so little public Apple ][ fan stuff and online material?

There's preserved stuff, a few emulators, people buying old machines & disks for $$$, but nothing like the many Atari & C= sites & rabid fandom.

The hosts blame it on numbers, but that didn't make sense, Apple sold more than Atari did, right?
#retrocomputing #appleii #atari

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Feoh

@drwho Hiya!

Are you perchance the same as the person (I almost called you a gent when I have NO idea. You could be Spivak :) on IRC #Atari asking about my TNFS server?

Thanks for checking in. This is the first piece of positive feedback or actual interest I've ever seen in the project.

It got taken down from the TNFS site directory at one point and the only other feedback I'd ever gotten is "disorganized" :)

I wish I had the time to really sit down and try to algorithmically map out how to filter @internetarchive's Atari collection into more human navigable categories, but my time has been drawn in other directions with work getting busy and my feeling the pressure to hardcore amp up my skills in case this amazing MIT job I love so much evaporates :)

Do you actually get real use out of the site? If I thought it had anything like a user base I'd be much more attentive.

One frustration I've had with the TNFS server software (another thing I'd love time to hack on! :) is that there's no way to even get a sense of the magnitude of actual users.

Anyway I checked and the TNFS server is emitting this over and over:

WARNING: unable to accept TCP connection

But it's back online. I ran the IA update software so it should get refreshed with the latest and greatest.

Pardon this got long. Have a great night and again thanks for checking in!

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Blake Patterson

I need a momentary button switch (a reset button) that can solder into one of these through-hole pairs, more often used for jumper pins. I can't find any with simply through pins - such buttons always have the rounded fin connectors with an in-bored hole.

Anyone know where I can find such a button? Thanks.

Photo of ACSI2STM board for the Atari ST
#electronics#PCB#maker
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Kenny Park

Well, @llamasoft_ox and @gilesgoat have supassed themselves with I, Robot. I popped into #PSVR2 to see what it was like, and emerged three hours later, only because the eldest has a swimming class to get to.

Shades of Hovver Bovver and Tempest, with an assault on the senses that has paved neural pathways I never knew I had.

Wonderful balance of puzzle solving and frantic arcade fury, all discovered through cyber-dream logic.

Masterpiece.

atari.com/products/i-robot

atari.comI, Robot
#Atari#IRobot#Llamasoft
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Amin Girasol

Big shout out to #BeebleBrox over on #AtariAge for some kind and helpful advice on where to go next with my gorgeous #Atari #130XE with dead console keys.

Thanks to their guidance, I was able to identify my keyboard type and confidently open it up to examine the Mylar membrane. At first glance it looked pristine, but on closer visual inspection and doing continuity checks with a multimeter, I found a break - which someone else had thoughtfully highlighted for me!

I've ordered a new membrane from #Retrohax_de, which seems to be the same retronics.eu membrane as sold by retrolemon.co.uk.

(The membrane available from retrofuzion.com appears to be for the rubber dome version, comparing it with the other variant from retrolemon, though they don't say.)

I'd never have figured all this out without the kindness of strangers. Thank you, Beeblebrox. And the mystery person who had inspected this membrane before and highlighted the break!

forums.atariage.com/topic/1427

A photo of the Mylar membrane with conductive traces, removed from the Atari 130XE keyboard and resting on a wooden chopping board. At the lower right of the frame, a previous owner has helpfully circled in felt tip pen a dodgy-looking section of trace that leads directly to the contacts for the console keys.
A close up photo of the dodgy length of trace. There's no continuity when I check with a multimeter.
My notes on a screenshot of Atari KEYBOARD TEST, with the unresponsive keys highlighted. My 130XE appears to have the version of the utility built for the 1200XL, which had four additional function keys not available on any other Atari 8-bit.
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Ari [APz] Sovijärvi

Does the very first batch of Atari ST have the type of keyboard which has million springs jump out if you take the keyboard backplate screws out?

I have one with a broken esc-key and I'm wondering what approach to take to repair it. The key has physically snapped the cross-shaped thing that holds the keycap in place.

EDIT: I'm starting to think it was those rubber pads that can fall out, it's been around 40 years since I saw that to happen, but I haven't opened an ST keyboard after watching my dad fumble it and spread what I assumed to be springs all over the floor.

#atari#atarist
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