Am I correct in understanding that this uses some sort of sonic triangulation?? That's an amazing bit of early tech! I see very little documentation on-line. Pass a note if you manage to get a youtube video or something online. I'd love to see this in action!
-Wil On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 3:38 PM Jim Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: > I have slain my white whale! > > Finally got my latest Paladin MC-1 kit (for which I paid too much IMHO but > this has become an obsession for me), and to my relief the EME Rombo I saw > in the listing photos does indeed contain the MC-1 ROM necessary to make > the measuring calculator work. Also, although there were many parts > missing and the re-badged T102 in the kit is in rough shape, the digitizer > box does appear to work (unlike the last one I got, whose major > accomplishment was to transform a pair of tantalum capacitors into magic > smoke in under a minute). > > If anybody has an MC-1 digitizer and no ROM, I've dumped it and posted it > to my Club100 member area ( > http://club100.org/memfiles/index.php?&direction=0&order=nom&directory=Jim%20Anderson/Paladin%20MC-1). > It works in REX but there isn't a lot you can do without the digitizer (you > can hit ESC from the main screen to play with the calculations menu, Reset > button to get out of it). Someone who understands ML may find it an > interesting curiosity, who knows. > > As time permits, I want to capture the serial data exchanged over the > RS-232 link with the digitizer just to see what's going on. > > > > > > > > jim > >
