I'd say totally on-topic, but probably worthy of a fresh thread :) I'm all for test harnesses. If I can help with dev/test/etc lemme know!
-Josh On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 11:54 AM, Fugu ME100 <[email protected]> wrote: > A little bit off topic here…. With quite a few people trying to resurrect > dead Model T’s I was wondering if this idea: > http://blog.tynemouthsoftware.co.uk/2016/04/pet-exerciser- > upcoming-project-preview.html > > might be of interest to other Model T owners? > > Of course it would have to be developed for the 80C85 which is not > socketed on the Model T, but the HOLD pin is available as are 40pin test > clips. It could run diagnostics for a voltage check, Keyboard, LCD, RAM > and ROM to check everything is working and potentially isolate the problem. > If it was based on the Arduino UNO platform (perhaps an 80C85 Shield?) > then it should be quite simple to put together the hardware and software > development would be well supported for those that wanted to tinker with > the diagnostics. > > I have a T102 that so far is resisting being debugged, I suspect it is a > cracked track (or two) so I have some interest :) > > Apologies if this is not an appropriate discussion topic for the list. >
