I’ve contacted him and ordered some of them. Pear, as it is his nick, created several cool expansions. Funnily enough, it also turned out that he is my fellow countryman who is also a member of community. It quickly turned out that one of the guys still manufactures various add-ons. By the way, these forums rock! Very informative source. I’ve started looking for upgrades on Hungarian Enterprise 64 forums. I’ve also added a piece of plastic to the membrane to strengthen it. I’ve decided to desolder the original connector and extend it with a ribbon wire. However, after cutting it, I had to extend it somehow because it was simply too short to reach the connector on the motherboard. It became very brittle because of its age so first I had to cut it. Replacing it, fixed the issue.įixing a broken keyboard membrane was next on the list. I’ve ordered a replacement transistor – BC337 – which is a standard bipolar NPN transistor. Unfortunately, this EP64 produced garbled video output.Īfter researching this issue, I’ve figured out that one of the transistors is to blame. It was missing a joy cap and a side connector cover but these were easily 3D printed □ It required cleaning and some electronic fixing. It wasn’t that easy with the second machine. I will get back to it later and now let’s fix the second unit. I’ve connected the video cable and it worked right away! I’ve found schematics for this cable on one of the Hungarian websites. I’ve also 3D printed some cases for these handmade connectors. I’ve cut an old PC ISA connector into pieces and cleaned them afterward.įits nicely. I had to make it myself as it is not a standard one.ĮP64 uses an edge connector for video output so I had to improvise a bit. Now, I could move on to testing but first I needed a proper A/V cable. Fortunately, that weird gooey came off nicely. It turned out that the copper heatsink got loose inside one of the machines. The plan was to disassemble it, clean and check what was wrong with loose parts before powering it on. Below, is the first machine that I’ve worked on.Īpart from that, loose parts were rattling inside. In general, these computers were in very good shape, however, they needed cleaning as some weird polymer reaction was visible on a joypad. He was right and that significantly lowered shipping costs per person.Ī couple of weeks later four machines showed up, YAY! □ Sachy/Lamers came up with an idea and suggested that some folks from the local retro community might want to have such a machine so we could order more computers and split shipping costs. The problem was that shipping costs were kinda high. Well, at least according to the eBay seller. I was surprised to find NOS units in Egypt. The story is quite usual, a friend of mine asked me to search for a specific computer for him – Enterprise 64.Īfter reading some forum posts on Polish and Hungarian forums, I found out, that these computers were popular in UK, Hungary, and Egypt. I took pics for this post back in mid-2020 □ This is going to be another “old story” post. You saw how a letter is written and might be pronounced, but there is nothing better than hearing the sound of the letters in a video or audio.For the past few days, I am battling a sinus infection and I cannot work in my garage so I’ve decided to write some blog posts. The better you pronounce a letter in a word, the more understood you will be in speaking the Polish language.īelow is a table showing the Polish alphabet and how it is pronounced in English, and finally examples of how those letters would sound if you place them in a word. Without it, you will not be able to say words properly even if you know how to write those words. Learning the Polish alphabet is very important because its structure is used in every day conversation.
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