DEV0108 arrived and accounted for, last of the "original batch" set (?) using their own wave-solder machine. The next batch should be from the Richardson facility.
As my daughter and I were setting it up, I told her the story of Woz and Jobs in their garage "starting something new" back in 1976 - they "hand built" and sold about 180 of them, and she laughed about Woz's crazy $666 price and she said "so that's how they did Kickstarter back then?" Yep, you got it! I hope in a year or two, we can get some schools involved, imagine classrooms full of X16's. Kids need a proper keyboard and learn some "first principles", not just swiping stuff around on a tablet.
Quick notes:
- No "Assembled in Texas" label onboard!? (haha! teasing, great note on the bottom of the board)
- need to find a new source for the mouse. It's white isn't quite matching the keyboard, plus it has a red LED instead of blue! Also the mouse PS/2 connector was far more stiff to insert than the keyboard connector. Was worried I had the wrong orientation, but no, it was just a "snug" fit.
- PlanetX was running ok for a few minutes, but then the tiles scrambled at some point (but it was still playing). Note I'm using 800mA adapter instead of 1A. Only happened once, all the other demo software is running fine.
- couple times, it seemed the red Activity LED was staying on when there was no activity.
- my daughter tried in vain to use CATALOG or DIRECTORY commands
- one great thing about the Tandy 1000 is they moved the keyboard and controller ports to the front of the case, which just make more sense (for users) on a desktop or set-top box unit. Just a reminder about it - maybe some pass-thru adapter dongle type thing can be made to do this for the X16.
- I'm charging up the FLIR camera now to do some heat analysis of the board!
Amazing and excited to finally be at this point!
what a beauty 
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