[GreenKeys] Early computers...
Chris Elmquist
chrise at pobox.com
Sat Jan 2 11:59:47 EST 2016
On Tuesday (12/29/2015 at 07:38PM -0600), Jeffrey D Angus wrote:
> Bah I say. Altairs, CPM, KIM and Sym....
> You guys had it easy, look what *I* had to learn on.
>
> I've been wanting one of these since my friend's older brother got one
> for Christmas in 1964. eBay prices tend to start at $150 and go up to
> $300.
>
> One morning I get the mail alert from eBay. Click the link, and it's a
> Buy it now for $39. Damn straight I clicked on it.
Ever since you sent this, I've been trying to figure out how you hook a
Teletype or terminal to it and I'm still not there.
Perhaps the USB adapters really can't go slow enough for this one and
you'll have to "bit-bang" the serial I/O...?? ;-)
In any case, didn't want you to think some of us don't appreciate that
artifact.
73, Chris NØJCF
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