Hi Andy,

Yes, I can relate to that! I made a simple electric piano interface for my "PC", with 6 parallel ports for the keyboard contacts & an 8253 timer/counter for sythesising 3 notes (from the last 3 keys pushed). It sounded OK when played fast!

80-column cards in an Apple? Are you sure? AFAIK, 80-column cards are punched cards, like those used in certain states to record votes during certain elections ;-). We don't want to confuse the younger members of the list by mixing technologies!

Regards,

Richard.be

----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Medina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2006 8:39 AM
Subject: Re: OT Recovery console humor


On Fri, 10 Mar 2006, Al Christie wrote:

Two 5 1/2's in the basement on an Apple 2+ clone - still works.

Do you have an 80 column card in it? I still have a working Apple IIe with the "extended" 80-column card that also held a

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from various lab instruments. Also had to make my own A/D converters. I bet Richard.be can relate to that. :)

Those were the fun days. <vbg>

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