{"id":157,"date":"2012-01-31T10:27:15","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T14:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microtron.nu\/?p=157"},"modified":"2012-02-11T12:55:38","modified_gmt":"2012-02-11T16:55:38","slug":"clearing-the-bench","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daughterofkrypton.com\/microtron\/clearing-the-bench\/","title":{"rendered":"Clearing the bench"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.daughterofkrypton.com\/microtron\/local_images\/9-2009\/robotpix%20003.jpg\" alt=\"SYM-1 Computer (Synertek)\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><i>Synertek&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/oldcomputers.net\/sym-1.html\">SYM-1<\/a> microcomputer, programmable from the hex keypad, with 6-digit LED readout.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The SYM-1 appears to be dead.  It does not give its customary &#8220;beep&#8221; when powered up, the display remains blank, and there is no response to any key presses.  Further, some of the chips appear to have rotted. I have removed it from Microtron in preparation for the robot&#8217;s long-awaited system upgrade.  Also gone are the original A\/D converter circuitry, the bumper-hit detection circuitry (both circa 1982), and a slew of old wires.<\/p>\n<p>My current thought regarding most of the legacy circuitry is to keep boards if they work; remove or replace them only when needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Synertek&#8217;s SYM-1 microcomputer, programmable from the hex keypad, with 6-digit LED readout. The SYM-1 appears to be dead. It does not give its customary &#8220;beep&#8221; when powered up, the display remains blank, and there is no response to any key presses. Further, some of the chips appear to have rotted. I have removed it from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","category-logbook","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daughterofkrypton.com\/microtron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daughterofkrypton.com\/microtron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daughterofkrypton.com\/microtron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daughterofkrypton.com\/microtron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daughterofkrypton.com\/microtron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.daughterofkrypton.com\/microtron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261,"href":"https:\/\/www.daughterofkrypton.com\/microtron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions\/261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daughterofkrypton.com\/microtron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daughterofkrypton.com\/microtron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daughterofkrypton.com\/microtron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}