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| matherp Guru  Joined: 11/12/2012 Location: United KingdomPosts: 9129 |
If you haven't already found it https://worldradiohistory.com has scans of a huge number of old electronics, radio and computing magazines Here is a good starting point I even found my very first magazine article in the February 1979 edition of Personal Computer World  I never used comments then either  |
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homa Guru Joined: 05/11/2021 Location: GermanyPosts: 351 |
It took me a moment ;-) Congratulations. And thanks for the link, really a time eater ... |
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Mixtel90 Guru Joined: 05/10/2019 Location: United KingdomPosts: 6798 |
Ah... memories of my first printer. A KSR33 with the keyboard and tape stuff stripped out (by someone else). It made a hell of a racket with that fractional HP motor. :) Yep, 20mA current loop interface (from my Nascom-1) too. :) Mick Zilog Inside! nascom.info for Nascom & Gemini Preliminary MMBasic docs & my PCB designs |
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| Volhout Guru Joined: 05/03/2018 Location: NetherlandsPosts: 4247 |
Similar, for acorn atom. Still don't know how I managed the heavy beas up the stairs to the attic. Volhout PicomiteVGA PETSCII ROBOTS |
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LucV Regular Member  Joined: 19/02/2023 Location: NetherlandsPosts: 62 |
What a luxuary: a printer or teletype. My first one was a telex machine. It weighed around 30 kilo and I had to haul it up to the second floor: my bedroom/study when I was just 18 year old living with my parents. Telex machines worked with 6 bit Baudot code (no ascii) and 110 volts. So I had to make an interface from my PET's 5 Volt output to the Telex. And then I wrote a machine language program that translated the PET's ASCII codes to the 6 bit Baudot code. I was missing several special signs and graphic symbols from my PET's character set. The documentation I made was, by the way, the first story I wrote for a magazine. Each time I started printing, in the living room nobody needed to stir the coffee because, the hammering of the arms could be heard and felt all through the house. Brings back memories....... Luc's tech Blog |
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| JohnS Guru Joined: 18/11/2011 Location: United KingdomPosts: 3804 |
Luxury! I used to dream of having a printer... John (didn't have a PET etc, though) |
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| Mixtel90 Guru Joined: 05/10/2019 Location: United KingdomPosts: 6798 |
Hehe.... :) I still have my second one. An Oki Microline 80, together with the stand to take telex rolls! It probably still works but I've not got anything with a Centronics interface set up now. Quality stuff. No graphics (bt a good assortment of Kanji characters) and no descenders on lower case characters. The incentive isn't there to run it even though I still have a bit of fanfold to go with it. :) Mick Zilog Inside! nascom.info for Nascom & Gemini Preliminary MMBasic docs & my PCB designs |
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| gadgetjack Senior Member  Joined: 15/07/2016 Location: United StatesPosts: 146 |
I just spent over 2 hours looking through those electronic books. So many I used to subscribe to over the years. So many memories.... Thanks Peter. Bookmarked for more future reading. |
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Justplayin Guru Joined: 31/01/2014 Location: United StatesPosts: 326 |
I built my first printer from Heatkit back in about 1980/81. It was a huge expense for me at the time since I was still in college and paying my own tuition. I was so worried it wouldn't work that I put all the chips and transistors in sockets so I could more easily troubleshoot and swap them out. When I finished it worked perfectly on the first try. I'm not sure if I still have it in storage or if it was disposed of for last move. I am not a Mad Scientist... It makes me happy inventing new ways to take over the world!! |
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Martin H. Guru Joined: 04/06/2022 Location: GermanyPosts: 1114 |
here is another time-consuming source ComputerAndVideoGames 'no comment |
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| austfox Newbie  Joined: 05/03/2016 Location: AustraliaPosts: 18 |
Thanks for the link. I visited the site many years ago, but had forgotten how good the scans are (ie clear and straight, but do have bleed-through). archive.org can be hit and miss in terms of quality. Edited 2023-06-07 19:51 by austfox |
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| Mixtel90 Guru Joined: 05/10/2019 Location: United KingdomPosts: 6798 |
It was cruel to post that link, Peter... ;) I had to look back at the first issue of Practical Electronics, which I bought when I was 12 years old. There's an article in there by A.J.Basset, who had a shop called "No.1 Electronics" in Chorley. I often used to cycle there (a couple of years later) to have a chat with Tony and top up my electronics collection. :) Mick Zilog Inside! nascom.info for Nascom & Gemini Preliminary MMBasic docs & my PCB designs |
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| Volhout Guru Joined: 05/03/2018 Location: NetherlandsPosts: 4247 |
1964... an all-brittish invention: PWM audio. Available today in picomite...  Edited 2023-06-08 01:41 by Volhout PicomiteVGA PETSCII ROBOTS |
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| Mixtel90 Guru Joined: 05/10/2019 Location: United KingdomPosts: 6798 |
If the X-10 had worked properly it would have been great. :) http://rk.nvg.ntnu.no/sinclair/audio/x-10.htm Mick Zilog Inside! nascom.info for Nascom & Gemini Preliminary MMBasic docs & my PCB designs |
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ice2642 Regular Member Joined: 27/05/2023 Location: BrazilPosts: 82 |
Thank you for the link, it is very cool :) Look this, look's insane today :) Imagine the guy at that time seeing an RGB LED  MMBasic 5.0707 on PicoMite VGA |
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