SOL-20 museum restoration, PART III

Опубликовано: 18 Июнь 2026
на канале: The Byte Attic
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In this series I carefully restore a Processor Technology SOL-20 Terminal Computer, the world's first true home computer (1976). The computer will go to the Dutch Home Computer Museum once restored. A minimal-intervention approach is used, replacing only the original parts that really need to be replaced.

In this PART III, I finish restoring the motherboard and do the first full integration test. Let's watch the machine boot for the first time in well over four decades!

Martin's Arduino sketch for testing 2102 SRAMs: https://www.8bity.cz/2013/jednoduchy-...

PART II:    • SOL-20 museum restoration, PART II  
PART IV:    • SOL-20 museum restoration, PART IV  

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