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Faith in humanity: Still in Free fall

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56695667

#Amazon #Alabama

There's a special place in hell for sites that put up 2FA prompts without focusing the input field. ​

Note to self, sanity check these kinds of cheaply made modules before connecting them up. I only found out this SD card reader's power rails were shorted out AFTER putting it in circuit. 😬​

After a visual inspection I guess I found the fault (C2)...

#electronics

Oh, FFS, not again... 😬​

#esd #packaging #ebay #electronics

(That was a lot of as wells, as well.) 😬​

And here's what drew you all here in the first place - CP/M running off this little pocket computer. 🤓​

Bonus: It can boot into Forth as well, which is sure to delight some of you as well!

The SC131 kit comes with a nice little case as well. But that's for tomorrow.

#electronics #Z180 #sbc #cpm #forth #retrocomputing

Here goes...

It lives! 😅​

#electronics #Z180 #sbc #retrocomputing

Supervisor/reset device and oscillator can in place. That's all the soldering done!

Cleaned up the board and did final sanity check before moving on to stuff those empty sockets.

#electronics #Z180 #sbc #retrocomputing

With all the passives mounted, connecting the USB-to-serial adaptor, which also serves as the power source, to do a few preliminary smoke tests.

All good. Next, the integrated circuits...

#electronics #Z180 #sbc #retrocomputing

First time I do a PLCC socket. Passable.

#electronics #Z180 #retrocomputing

Chilling with the Elite SC131 pocket-sized Z180 RomWBW CP/M computer kit...

#electronics #cpm #retrocomputing

Seriously, is there any search engine out there that actively removes anything that has to do with companies selling products from the search results? 😡​

Seriously, I need to install a 7 year old _plugin_ to make Rhythmbox frigging STOP when the playlist ENDS?! 😞​

Situation: normal

And then, OH MY GOD WHAT HAVE I DONE, this was a PARTS unit and I needed the CASE for something else and now I have ANOTHER C64 to feed! 😬

#c64 #retrocomputing #oopsididitagain