[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.
More information about the Elecraft
mailing list