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Progress, and a manual

A project log for Recreating the Jupiter Ace

Recreation of the 'Fastest computer in the Universe' that runs FORTH.

cees-meijerCees Meijer 08/29/2019 at 20:092 Comments

Routing is progressing, but not as fast as I would hope. Originally I thought that I could simply follow 90% of the routing on the original board. But since there are a few major changes, like the type of RAM and the addition of some components for video and power supply decoupling, this soon became impossible.

A lot of routing is done, but as the ratsnest shows, the best is yet to come.

So I decide to let that go, and just route as I (and the Kicad router) think is best. Which still means a lot of work.

In the meantime I finally ordered the 'Jupiter ACE - FORTH programming' book by Steven Vickers.


Very nice to have at least the original manual for my computer, even though this computer itself is still in the future.

Discussions

danjovic wrote 08/30/2019 at 22:06 point

Just keep up and sooner than you'll expect the routing will be ready! 

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Cees Meijer wrote 09/01/2019 at 17:56 point

Thanks, i hope so. Right now I am in so stuck that I can only route 3 or 4 traces in an evening. :-(

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