as there are already many speculations around about the next weekends big event in France of whether of not there will be especially modified/tuned versions of our beloved dedicated machines starting, here comes the full story of the the Mephisto RISC 1, which I will be operating.
I got the RISC module set about 1,5 years ago as a vintage gift from my friend Eric (thanks again for it). The point was that it was not working any more, it was just trying to boot and did not start. Moreover, 4 of the 6 LEDs were white/yellow (TRN, INFO, LEV) or did not work at all (FCT) I guess due to quite heavy usage before. All in all even the shell was more or less totally damaged and just hold together with plastic tape.
So I decided to clean everything up and send the defective module to Arno Kreuzberg, who really could get back everything to a functional state after changing a couple of ICs and some weeks of work. He did quite a good job and I ordered also one of his new display modules. Still the issue with the LEDs remained...
As about 4 weeks ago it appeared that I will play with the RISC (as Alain decided to come with his new SPARC module) I said to myself that in view of the highly recognised competitors that I cannot show up with these nasty LEDs. So last week I decided to replace them and put eveything in a new shell. I added some wiring to the parts which did not work and now I have again a fully working RISC module. The red LEDs are so bright now that I guess all opponents will fall into total agony once I'll switch it on
.So my question to the holy hall of dedicated machine judges. Does this RISC count as modified or not
?no RISC no FUN regards
Stefan
