Newsletter & Parts tester

[Obsolescence]

All,

With apologies for not being online as much as I should:

the latest 'Newsletter' with a PiDP-8 section. I was just in time include the big news on Bill Cattey's PiDP-8 software update:

https://obsolescence.dev/obsolescence-newsletter-may-2026.html

Kits now come with a little tester board (always remove the Pi before using it!), which can be helpful when a LED or switch does not work after building the kit. It's been there for a while, but I forgot to link to it :-)

https://obsolescence.dev/pidp-parts-tester.html

Also, the above page contains links to the Kicad project files. Links to them sloshed around the Obsolescence site and the Google Groups, now they are all in one place.

As always, feedback is very welcome. I might be a bit slow to respond, but that is not due to a lack of interest in feedback!

Kind regards,

Oscar.