After 40 Years, My 1090xl Finally has a Card!!!

[sup8pdct]

Never Thought i would see the day. My empty 1090XL finally has a card after 40 Years.

Fitted straight into the only backing i had that could hold a card.

Now to make up a 50 ribbon cable and come up with some power.

Kudos to everyone who contributed to this project.

[reifsnyderb]

Looks Great!   🙂

 

Since that's an original 1090XL, you'll want to remove the little blue jumper on the card.

[kenames99]

wow! looks great! have fun with that one. there are more to come.

 

a lot of this work has been with help from you and all the measurement you gave me over the years. so thank you also goes to you.

 

Ken

[DavidMil2]

Man, that is beautiful!  Do you have a connector cable?

 

DavidMil2

[TGB1718]

7 hours ago, sup8pdct said:

Never Thought i would see the day. My empty 1090XL finally has a card after 40 Years.

Looks great, but what card is it, what does it do, can't seem to see what it is ?

[reifsnyderb]

3 hours ago, TGB1718 said:

Looks great, but what card is it, what does it do, can't seem to see what it is ?

It's one of the Z-80 CP/M cards I made.   🙂    It's looking great in a real 1090XL.   🙂

 

Here's a close-up view of one of them.

 

 

[sup8pdct]

20 hours ago, reifsnyderb said:

Looks Great!   🙂

 

Since that's an original 1090XL, you'll want to remove the little blue jumper on the card.

will do

[sup8pdct]

18 hours ago, DavidMil2 said:

Man, that is beautiful!  Do you have a connector cable?

 

DavidMil2

No. need to make one. Also power plug. Have flu at moment so doing things is rather exhausting.

[Geister]

You'll need an 80-column card and the 320K memory card to go with it.  If you have the keypad there is a card for that as well.  Am I forgetting any?

 

 

 

 

 

Does the original 1090 take a 9 volt AC adaptor?  I'm using a disk drive power supply for my remake 1090.  Works great.

Edited Friday at 12:08 AM by Geister

[reifsnyderb]

1 hour ago, Geister said:

You'll need an 80-column card and the 320K memory card to go with it.  If you have the keypad there is a card for that as well.  Am I forgetting any?

 

 

 

 

 

Does the original 1090 take a 9 volt AC adaptor?  I'm using a disk drive power supply for my remake 1090.  Works great.

The original 1090XL had some minor issues that would result in some memory conflicts if more than one memory card were to be installed.  If the buffered refresh pin were to be raised from U7 or U7a, however, I think the new cards would work fine on an original 1090XL.  I'd have to check the original schematic for exact details.

 

Update:  U7, pin 9 or U7a1, pin 14.

 

2nd Update:  I just looked at the pictures.  The chips are soldered on the board.  😢

 

 

 

 

Edited Friday at 01:11 AM by reifsnyderb

[sup8pdct]

1 hour ago, Geister said:

You'll need an 80-column card and the 320K memory card to go with it.  If you have the keypad there is a card for that as well.  Am I forgetting any?

 

Maybe how much commission you get?  🤣 😂 🤣

 

 

 

The original 1090 uses 9V AC, however the dc socket is 6.3mm od and about 2.8mm center pin. Ie larger then normal atari stuff. found something in my older laptop universal power supplies that fits. Now to make an adaptor

[Tillek]

13 hours ago, reifsnyderb said:

It's one of the Z-80 CP/M cards I made.   🙂    It's looking great in a real 1090XL.   🙂

 

Here's a close-up view of one of them.

 

 

That got mentioned on the Atari BBS Community Zoom chat... great work there!  Thank you!

[Geister]

1 hour ago, sup8pdct said:

Maybe how much commission you get?  🤣 😂 🤣

 

 

 

The original 1090 uses 9V AC, however the dc socket is 6.3mm od and about 2.8mm center pin. Ie larger then normal atari stuff. found something in my older laptop universal power supplies that fits. Now to make an adaptor

None.  Fully paid up.  I've been waiting for this forever!