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Delightful Radio Shack VIC20 Robot Article
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Tue, 12 Nov 2002 06:00:28 GMT
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http://cbm.csbruce.com/~csbruce/cbm/transactor/v7/i4/p037.html
It's a scan archive of one of the most amazing magazines ever-the
Transactor. While other computer magazines of the 80's focused on boring
BASIC games you could key in, the Transactor (named after the Commodore PET)
was a hardcore hacking journal, with stuff about reprogramming your 1541's
onboard processor, sawing ram chips in half to make a rough digital camera,
and...
...tearing apart the Radio Shack Armatron for control from a Commodore VIC20.
A treat.
Calum
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| (...) Oh My Goodness!! That brings back soooo many memories. There was an article in a much later Transactor which interfaces the same Radio Shack arm with the 64. The 64 had a much easier hardware interface 'cause the 'user port' was much akin to (...) (22 years ago, 12-Nov-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
| | | Re: Delightful Radio Shack VIC20 Robot Article
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| <snip> (...) camera, actually we did not cut them in half we took the tiny metal plate off the top, to expose the actaul IC, and put a lens in front of it, got 1 or 2K resolution, with a split in the middle since the chips were made in two halves. (...) (22 years ago, 15-Nov-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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