Tag: cassette

Builds a PET 4032-compatible mainboard from modular CS/A65 processor, PET I/O, and video cards.

No assembled seller or current PCB supplier was verified. A build needs three or four CS/A65 cards, a backplane, components, a programmed ROM, a case, a display or video-interface circuit, and a power supply. PETCPU revision 1.1B publishes board files but its layout is marked untested; the current VDC and PETIO pages publish later revisions marked okay, while the replica instructions date from 2010.

Recreates the 1986 Soviet Radio-86RK home computer on one board with an Intel 8080A, 32 KB of SRAM, integrated keyboard, monochrome composite video, cassette, serial, and parallel interfaces.

The GPL-3.0 repository provides Version 1.4 KiCad files, Gerbers, a bill of materials, monitor and font ROM images, project notes, and archived original magazine material. Weird Electronics' bare-PCB listing was temporarily unavailable while the seller takes a break through August 20, 2026; when active, it includes only the main PCB and two ROM-cartridge PCBs. This is a large through-hole build requiring several vintage Intel 8xxx or compatible chips, 67 key switches, programmed ROMs, and regulated power. The Tindie heading incorrectly calls it an Intel 8088 computer; its own detailed specifications and the project repository correctly identify an Intel 8080A.