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Re: Delightful Radio Shack VIC20 Robot Article
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Tue, 12 Nov 2002 14:03:33 GMT
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Calum Tsang writes:
> http://cbm.csbruce.com/~csbruce/cbm/transactor/v7/i4/p037.html
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> 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...
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> ...tearing apart the Radio Shack Armatron for control from a Commodore VIC20.
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> A treat.
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> Calum
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 todays parallel port, in which you
had 8 lines to play with.
I started to build a very simple interface for the user port in which each
line out connected to a relay, and the other half of the relay could handle
4.5 volts, thus I was able to connect 8 LEGO 4.5 volt motors to the 64.
Unfortunately, that project was never completed, and I only owned 1 4.5 volt
motor at the time.
But it was fun building :)
I have a VIC, a 64, a 128 and a Pet in storage, and two years ago, right
before I moved into my current apartment, they all worked :)
Oh the memories of the Commodore :)
Dave K
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| (...) Yeah, when I saw it, I was floored. I used to have a stack of Transactors that the school library gave me, because no one was interested in them. Read every paragraph, sentence and word of them. Problem was, I never really understood the nitty (...) (22 years ago, 12-Nov-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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