Wow, that got addictive.

Thought I’d just add some of the resistors, a bit at a time, solder in… here and there when I had a few minutes.  But no, once I started placing components it became really addictive.  I couldn’t stop.  I got them all in in about half an hour!

I went line by line from the parts list, installing all resistors of one value first, then another.  Then diodes.   I shelled out for vintage on those too — they were easy enough to find thanks to my old standby on ebay, acpsurplus!

Transistors are all in, disc cap is in.  Man, this is starting to look like a thing!

But I gotta be careful.  The traces are tiny and packed close together.  Twice I’ve accidentally bridged them.  And that’s what I’ve caught, there could be others!!  Have to look really, really closely.

Pretty much all there except for jumper wires.  Time for a beauty shot!

And there you have it folks — one pseudo-vintage Don Lancaster-designed brute force ASCII encoder!

Now to test!