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by papahippo
Mon Jun 01, 2020 7:45 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Einstein revisited - 30 + years on
Replies: 4
Views: 5334

Re: Einstein revisited - 30 + years on

Hey, good to receive feedback! more and quicker than I had dared hope for. I've probably been spending too much time on Einstein in the last few weeks (still crazy after all these years), but I've just turned him off the day. My little projects for the new future are: 1. Interfacing an old trackball...
by papahippo
Fri May 29, 2020 12:08 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: partially broken original Tatung Einstein Colour Monitor
Replies: 2
Views: 2914

Re: partially broken original Tatung Einstein Colour Monitor

Just noticed the question mark on your reply! This one also had a box connected, but the box had been wired wrongly. I removed the box and made a straight 7-pin DIN to 7-pin DIN cable to diagnose the problem. If I get that working, I can easily re-introduce the box later. So far, it's still behaves ...
by papahippo
Fri May 29, 2020 11:49 am
Forum: General
Topic: Einstein revisited - 30 + years on
Replies: 4
Views: 5334

Einstein revisited - 30 + years on

Hi, I was an early adopter of the Tatung Einstein, fairly soon after its release. Back in those days, I had my ideas about what I should be looking be looking for in a home computer, Tatung had their ideas about what the market wanted or should be wanting... and their was sufficient overlap for me t...
by papahippo
Fri May 22, 2020 12:07 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: partially broken original Tatung Einstein Colour Monitor
Replies: 2
Views: 2914

partially broken original Tatung Einstein Colour Monitor

Hi, I am bringing both(!) my Tatung Einstein Computers back into service. One of these is equipped with an original monitor. This seems to stuck in green mode It displays either 80 cols or 40 columns according to how I connect it... but only in green. When connecting 40-col connector it totally igno...