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It seems Jan Beta had a try at building it, he even mentions the forum:

And one that didn't sell is back…

See you there tomorrow!

No ORIC talk in the schedule, but some 6502 ASM with a talk about the Apple-1 OS.

See you there!

Another broken one in UK, with a few marks. Likely just the usual gear to replace.
And a cheaper untested one.

Just noticed that Unicode will be adding legacy characters from old computers, I think we should make sure our platform isn't left out. I don't think there's much in the default ORIC charset that can't be displayed from Unicode though, but we should all open our manual and verify. One concern is th...

Seems it wants 9V and 12V, nothing that couldn't be done from existing power bricks, you just need to make sure of the pinout, and negative reference, is it like the ORIC with -4V or is it referenced to ground…

I wonder how difficult it would be to build a proper parallel port connector as a bus expansion, with say a few registers in page 3, to send and receive data and check status? Probably not much, some of the chips used in the old PCs could probably interface with the bus. Now how many interfaces wou...

It's not worth paying for something like that IMHO. There are other better ones about - though the asking price is often a bit steep. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/324987838178?hash=item4baac8dee2:g:oqAAAOSwnc1h3Ghx Wait for one to turn up at the right price. Well, could have been a for-parts one but ...

The problem you'll have with these devices on the ORIC printer port is indeed missing signals like BUSY. On PC the standard port (uni-directional) was only meant to use the 8 data bits for output, so devices had to use those other signals to send back data in nibbles. This won't work at all on ORIC....

Another untested and cosmetically challenged one in UK.

We still need volunteers to host the talks at the retro devroom (to read questions to the speaker after the video playback, and moderate the Jitsi Meet channel which simulates the hallway discussion). Ping me if interested :-) The schedule is here: https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/track/retrocomputi...

Extended deadline: December 29th.

Don't wait until you have a complete abstract, you can always polish it later, submit to pentabarf now!

We will again have an online edition of FOSDEM February 5-6.
And again a retro devroom.

The CfP is out.

Deadline: December 26th.

Yeah I think it's the 4 wire cable he means.