[Techtoolslist] Some test rigs i picked up recently...

Phillip Eaton inbox at phillipeaton.com
Thu Jun 25 14:40:18 EDT 2009


I love all that old dev gear.

All the production machines you see that come out of Atari were finished
articles, with artwork and manuals and clean PCBs etc, but it's nice to see
that they were hacking around with all the old muck and bullets when
designing them :-)

Phil

> --- On Thu, 6/25/09, andy at andysarcade.net <andy at andysarcade.net> wrote:

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>

> From: andy at andysarcade.net <andy at andysarcade.net>

> Subject: [Techtoolslist] Some test rigs i picked up recently...

> To: "TechToolsList" <techtoolslist at flippers.com>

> Date: Thursday, June 25, 2009, 11:18 AM

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>

> hi all..

>

> Here are some interesting ancient test rigs i picked up recently :

>

> http://www.andysarcade.net/pix/newtestrigs/

>

> Atari RAM/ROM tester - Got from the USA with an original manual,

> untested so

> far, but it goes nicely with my CTF-1 :)

>

> Atari PBS-1 - Comes with switch matrix unit and Light matrix/power supply

> unit, some crushed connectors, but should be a worker. Sorry

> John, i got no

> cards at all to go with this :| have you got any at all?

>

> Atari Superman Pinball testrig - This looks like it might be a

> prototype, it

> is so well put together, who knows? It came from the main Atari

> distributer

> for Atari in the UK in the early 80's - MHG, so the provenance is good.

>

> Kurz-Kasch - Signature II, very early signature analyser, nice

> neat little

> box. I actually have 4 of these, drop me a line if you're

> interested in one!

> (switchable line voltage 110/240)

>

> Very surpisingly, everything but the ram/rom tester was obtained

> in the UK,

> and was used here in the UK 'back in the day'.

>

> Gotta love all those twinkling lights.

>

> Andrew Welburn

> www.andys-arcade.com

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