
#Arduino led clock generator
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#Arduino led clock full
After a full recapping - a prudent move given the four decades since the machine was manufactured - the machine failed to show any signs of life. Weird or not, all computers have at least a few things in common, a fact which helped home in on the problem with a Rainbow that was dead on arrival. But hey - at least it got the plain beige box look right. And machines don’t get much weirder than the DEC Rainbow 100-B, sporting as it does both Z microprocessors and usable as either a VT100 terminal or as a PC with either CP/M or MS-DOS. In retrocomputing circles, it’s often the case that the weirder and rarer the machine, the more likely it is to attract attention.
