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Old 1st Mar 2021, 7:56 pm   #8
GeraldSommariva
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Default Re: The Transam Triton Personal Computer

Hi Good to see the Triton lives on.

Based on a Look see today I think getting mine back up and running is going to be a major project.

I did a lot of modification which of course I documented very well (NOT), took out the original 3K memory and upgraded to 48K using memory cards from old barcode monitor/pestel terminals, replaced the power supply with a switch mode one, moved the 8k basic and assembler to 8K eproms, and designed and build a Floppy Disk Controller based on the Western Digital FD chip and a Z80 co processor to do the I/O.

I think a new modern reprinted PCB would be good, and can you still get the original static memory chips.

This is what mine look's like today
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