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I'll be Taking a Step Back from Retro Computing Development

5/30/2025

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Its been a very good ride, but I've pretty much done all I can think of for the Atari, and or anything else I wish to do for any of the other 8-bit computing platforms. So after 10 years this month of mainly doing Atari upgrade projects in my spare time, I've made a decision to redirect all of my creativity in an entirely different direction.

And that will be concentrating more of my time to my Low Temperature Refrigeration roots, which I've been contracting out my services to another company for over 12 years now. I'll be specifically looking at a very small desktop chiller that will hopefully blow a -50 C compressed air stream over electronic components in a lab setting for test purposes, and be nearly 1/2 the size of an existing product.

This should be a lot of fun since it also incorporates almost all of my creative talents. Yes there will be a custom PCB, and yes that board will have an embedded PIC micro-controller, and there will be a 3D printed case as well.

I'm not at liberty to reveal much more about my chiller development, since I'm under an NDA.

Until next time,
- Michael

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    My name is Michael St. Pierre and in the early 90's I decided to create my very first Atari 8-Bit upgrade. It was called TransKey.
    ---Then soon after Atari folded and I left the scene ---
    25 years later I came back with a mission to improve upon what I had started so long ago.

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