[R-390] Progress?

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> I've still got mine.  When I look back, it's amazing how much time I wasted
> in the '70s playing pong.  My friends had fancier stuff but that's what I
> had.  Of course I'm not sure I'm doing much better these days.  I've been
> listening to SWL broadcast and hearing the same news on 6 stations.  I'm
> amazed at how little diversity there is.  Even the local interest programs
> can sound similar.  Last night China was talking about how easy it is to be
> an entrepreneur in their country and their mentoring program for beginners.
> I tune over a few KC and there is BBC talking about exactly the same thing.
> I guess Great Britain has a mentoring program for beginning entrepreneurs
> too.  I also like seeing how many AM broadcast stations are playing Art Bell
> at the same time.  That's lots of fun.  But I have to admit I was hoping for
> more.  Maybe Radio Al-Quada or something like that but I haven't gotten that
> lucky yet.  But at least I'm getting great reception.  ;-)
> 
> John



I think that is a good console to keep. I gave mine to a kid in the
neighborhood when I lived in Germany.

I've thought about getting another 8 bit system because of the input/output
joystick ports. You could control anything thru the joystick ports. I sold a
stack of programming books when I got out of the 8 bit computer thing. That
stack was probably 3-5 feet high of good books. I keep thinking about
timers, timed recording, etc. The 6502 was so easy to program and having the
input/output port made it pretty much unlimited for controlling things in a
house. It would be easy to control lights in the house when we are away on
trips if I still have one of those little computers. Those computers were so
small you could hang them just about anywhere and they didn't take much
power to run.

I was listening to Atlantic flight following last night on 8.732 USB. Very
powerful Spanish chatter came on and completely wiped out the flight
following. All flight following comms stopped. I guess they changed
frequencies. I couldn't hear them well under the chatter so this is just a
guess.



Barry