We are having a 15% off of EVERYTHING sale! Back in stock are the TI-994a to Atari Joystick Adapters and I am working on getting more KeyTronic foam and foil pads in stock again now. I hope to have many bags available soon. I was adding a few here and there but they sold too quickly to even post an update so please keep an eye out for them. Happy holidays everyone!
Chris D. wrote a great article about our Resound OPL3 sound card on the Tindie blog! We are so flattered, take a look!
We attended and even had a booth at the very first Retropalooza six years ago! Back then we were selling old carts, consoles and other fun retro goodies. Our kids were much younger then but still had fun helping us work the booth. 😄 We also met one of the Game Chasers and even had him sign an Atari 2600 E.T. cartridge, which we still have.
This year we didn’t get a booth, however, we will be attending just for fun and to meet some more people in this great community! This year Retropalooza VI has a great line up of guests and it looks like it will be a ton of fun for everyone. We are very excited!
So if you are planning on attending, hopefully we’ll see you there and maybe you’ll find a sweet business card with a sweet coupon code. 😉 We hope to get some photos, if we do we’ll post them along with a sweet coupon for all of our Internet friends as well! 💗
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After a couple of SOL users were having issues with the pads working consistently and some experimentation along with lots of input from the vintage computer community we decided the closed cell foam I was using was just a tad too short for the SOL. Since I was going to be changing the foam anyway, and had requests for foam more like the original KeyTronic pads, I thought meeting customer demand was the way to go! I went ahead and moved away from the closed cell foam and opted for more resilient and taller open cell foam that is just like the OEM foam. Now the keys feel more like they did when they were new from KeyTronic. You can find the new pads here:
These new pads have officially been successfully tested on the following computers: Compaq Portable, Apple Lisa and the Franklin Ace 1000.
We would love to add your computer to the official tested list after installation. Please don’t hesitate to write a review here on the product listing or you are welcome to just send an email letting us know about your experience using these pads!
Our goal is to provide fully assembled pads that require no deconstruction, cleaning, cutting, punching or gluing for all KeyTronic keyboard restorations. All feedback is welcome and appreciated!
To see the saga of the pad revisions you can visit this older blog post. It includes links to the vcfed.org forum where the vintage computer community gathered to help me get this all figured out. It also contains photos of the machine Kevin built to help me make these pads more efficiently!
Here is a short video of a very nice customer installing these new pads in his Apple Lisa:
He used a nifty tool from a wax/pottery/clay carving and spatula set on Amazon or eBay. Here are just two examples to help get you started looking for these tools if you don’t already have a tool you can use:
We just finished another batch of Resound Cards and we are still running our RAD sale!
There are just a couple of RadLib Cards left but we are getting more ready today.
We have restocked the Lo-tech 1MB RAM cards and they are still on SALE!
Get them while supplies last. 
We’re having a storewide sale to celebrate our new AdLib clone, the RadLib! Visit the TexElec store while discounts last…
Due to popular demand we are bringing you the fully assembled RadLib, our AdLib Sound Card clone! We have assembled it to look as close as we can to the actual AdLib from 1990. There is more detail in the product description so please take a few moments to check it out…
You may have already seen the “new” Lo-tech PCBs we just listed in the store. They are new as in we are now offering them due to popular demand. 😀 At this time we only have the PCB available for each item, however we are including the compact flash connector/socket for the cards that use them. We have had the connectors in stock for a while, just by chance, and since they are a bit pricey to buy individually we thought we would include these. We may decide later to sell some of these cards assembled or even in kit form. But for now we have had requests from some of you to stock these particular Lo-tech cards, so here they are! We have previously offered one of these and since we had requests to bring it back here we decided to stock more of those as well!
If there is anything you see on Lo-tech’s site, let us know! We have a contract with James and are the only Official Lo-tech Partners and can stock any of his boards you may need. We just need to make sure there is demand before stocking them so don’t hesitate to let us know!
The Lo-tech ISA ROM (PCB Only) has been restocked for good:
Here are the “new” cards we are offering; Lo-tech 8-bit IDE Adapter (PCB Only), Lo-tech XT-CF Adapter for Tandy 1400 Laptops (PCB Only) with Socket, and Lo-tech XT-CF-lite rev.2 (PCB Only) with Socket:
You may have noticed I mentioned that we will possibly be offering some of these in kit form. Well, we have decided, also due to popular demand, to offer another item we currently sell in kit form. That is coming soon and I won’t tell you, just yet, which card that will be. You will just have to wait and see. 😉
Our next card, which is not Lo-tech related but is still totally sweet and RAD, will be another one that many have requested. If you have been reading our blog posts lately you likely already have a good idea of what it may be. I don’t think you will be disappointed so hold tight for the next sweet sweet surprise…
Just as promised in our last post we have restocked the Resound OPL3 – 4 Channel Sound Card 8-Bit ISA. We have reduced the gain as promised and have another batch ready to go! Thanks for the feedback and enjoy!
We will also be posting some new items very shortly so be on the lookout…
