[Elecraft] Computers in the Stone Age

Randy Farmer w8fn at tx.rr.com
Wed May 28 20:06:34 EDT 2014


And does anybody remember the Doctor DX cartridge for the Commodore 64 
from AEA? That was an amazing piece of work. I used one to train for a 
trip to J6 for CQWW CW in 1991.

73...
Randy, W8FN
On 5/28/2014 2:44 PM, Charlie T, K3ICH wrote:
> Don't forget how revolutionary the Commodore VIC-20 was with all of 
> 3.2 K of RAM.  We (Microlog) made a plug in called the AIR-1 for the 
> VIC that allowed CW & RTTY communications. I wrote a complete 
> production test program in BASIC that required no other test equipment 
> but plugging in the AIR-1 and running the tape loaded test program.  
> It checked the CW copy, aligned the AFSK generator and verified CW & 
> PTT keying, all in that 3.2 K of RAM with neat graphic indicators on 
> the screen for the production testers.



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