On Wed, 25 Jun 2008, Bob Donnell wrote: > Anyone else remember the MicroColorComputer? That was Curt's programming > platform, if I recall right. I recall the group of packeteers in Seattle > being amazed that it had enough horsepower to do the receive job.
Yea, with the chicklet keyboard. It wasn't as nice to play with as the full-blown CoCo with the real keyboard. It had MS BASIC in ROM which had no ELSE statement. I ported Forth to that machine so I'd have something more interesting to program in. Saved/restored Forth to/from cassette tapes. > Of course, Curt, being a typicall not-excessively-funded college student was > making work what he had access to. He also wire-wrapped a clone of the GLB > Electronics PK-1 TNC. I've no idea (truthfully!) where he got the EPROM > image to run it though. Improved the design actually. More memory and fewer chips. That was a LONG time ago. I was the 3rd packet guy on the air (ever) in Pullman, WA. KB7B and K7MM were the first two. Back then I was N7CEA. > Reminds me of someone's tag line I saw not too long ago - something like: > Engineers: Making what we can get do what we want. Story of my life. Hadn't heard that one before. I like it! -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
