{"id":73,"date":"2011-10-18T20:55:52","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T03:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/?p=73"},"modified":"2016-09-09T09:29:27","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T09:29:27","slug":"my-projects-from-way-back-in-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/2011\/10\/my-projects-from-way-back-in-time\/","title":{"rendered":"My projects from way back in time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Way back before I had a &#8216;real&#8217; job I explored lots of stuff.<\/p>\n<p>The workbench with several projects:<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_83\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-83\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/udlocal1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Old-WorkBench-some-projects.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/udlocal1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Old-WorkBench-some-projects-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"Old WorkBench and some projects\" title=\"Old WorkBench and some projects\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-83\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-83\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Old WorkBench and some projects<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p>On the left in front of that monitor (orange monochrome!) is a built from scratch MicroBee computer.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s predecessor is in the 19inch rack box second from the right. This started life as home design Z80 computer with own BIOS (hand entered via switch bank, then via keyboard), then it transformed into an S100 bus system, and then a MicroBee computer was built onto one S100 board!<\/p>\n<p>Back right is my own design linear power supply 0-20V and variable current limit. There is some test gear &#8211; custom built function generator so many addons &#8211; can&#8217;t remember, and a kit frequency counter, Forth kit computer, scavenged printer board, custom Nicad battery charger.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Way back before I had a &#8216;real&#8217; job I explored lots of stuff. The workbench with several projects: On the left in front of that monitor (orange monochrome!) is a built from scratch MicroBee computer. It&#8217;s predecessor is in the 19inch rack box second from the right. This started life as home design Z80 computer &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/2011\/10\/my-projects-from-way-back-in-time\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My projects from way back in time&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,10,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devices","category-historical","category-project-or-device"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1394,"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions\/1394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}