For those of you that answered over 50 on the age question, you probably
grew up reading Popular Electronics magazine. (For the U.S. folks anyway.)
In the five year period between 1967 and 1971, Southwest Technical Products
Corp. (SWTPC) published over 50 articles in Popular Electronics written by
Daniel Meyer, Don Lancaster, Louis Garner and others. The idea was to write
a construction article then sell the circuit board and kit of parts. Daniel
E. Meyer started DEMCO in 1964 and incorporated as SWTPC in 1967. The
company lasted until 1986 and had over 100 employees the 1970s. Don
Lancaster was not an employee, he just got royalties.
Around 1975 SWTPC came out with computer and terminal kits. Don Lancaster
was turning out Cookbooks by then (RTL, TTL, CMOS, etc) and started doing
musical projects for PAIA. They parted ways.
I have been collecting old issues of Popular Electronics and Radio
Electronics and scanning a selection of SWTPC projects. This is a history of
kits like FM wireless microphones, reverb adapters, musical instruments,
audio amps, strobe lights, digital clocks, and digital test equipment. Most
of the members of this list have built several of these things over the
years. For example, there are some Nixie tube projects in Feb 1970, Dec 1970
and Feb 1971.
I have almost finished with Popular Electronics and have posted them to my
web site. I will add to the Radio Electronics page next. (Thanks to Jay
West for providing the space.) I am scanning the magazines at 300 dpi and
storing them as tiff files. I downsize them to 150 dpi JPG files for the
web. I have over 1.5 GB of magazine tiff files. I will make them available
on a DVD ROM for those who want them. My whole web site will fit on a
CD-ROM. I will provide details on how to get these in a few weeks. (I am not
looking to make any money on this.)
http://www.swtpc.com/mholley/magazines.htm
I also have a 1971 SWTPC catalog with a list of which Popular Electronics
issue each product came from.
http://www.swtpc.com/mholley/Catalog7/Catalog.htm
Michael Holley
www.swtpc.com/mholley
Can anybody tell me what an Extender Board is ?
It has part number 5012447D (with behind it also the text W9042).
It also comes with two 70-11411-1D cables but I dont know if they belong
with this.
Thanks!
Stefan.
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http://www.mansier.net
Has anyone heard of this unit? I've done a Google search with no hits.
In putting together my collection of documentation, I ran across this
manual. Thanks!
Is that true of an entire drive or just the directory?
><snip>You can't actually write more files than the
>file structure supports if APPEND is all the extra help you've got.
>
How about some fancy DOS batch file programming and use of LHA (a
small compression program) to unpack and re-pack files only when
needed on the fly?
bill
My Dad is on a cleaning-out binge, and he is ready to landfill several boxes
of C-64 and Vic-20 stuff. If anybody could make better use of it, please
email me and I'll get you in touch with him. This is for
you-pick-it-up-only, no shipping available. A small donation to him would
be appreciated, but he really just wants to get rid of the stuff.
He is between Dallas and Monmouth, Oregon. Salem is about 22 miles East
>from there.
Here is his description:
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Commodore stuff. Lots of it. Boxes of it. 64 and vic 20.
stuff like: RUN commodore mags in late 80's; programmers reference guide;
maybe
a dozen games, Q-bert e.g.; COMREX CR 220 dot matrix printer (in box) Some
commodores are in origional boxes. power supplies, game controllers.
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email me at: danmNO at soverSPAM.net or d_l_mcd at hotmail.com
There's also a Friden electro-mechanical calculator and a bunch of other
stuff. It's all going to the landfill soon if nobody goes to get it.
Happy Spring Cleaning,
Dan McDonald
Bellows Falls, Vermont
USA
Hi,
On UK eBay atm there's a cassette drive for a GE Terminet. We used
Terminets in our place, but I don't recall ever seeing a cassette
drive, anyone know anything about them? If it's stays cheap I might
put in a bid just for the interest, and mebbe I'll find a Terminet
one day...
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=1479&item=57641615…
--
Cheers,
Stan Barr stanb at dial.pipex.com
The future was never like this!
On Mar 30 2005, 14:36, Jules Richardson wrote:
> Back on topic, does the correct pronunciation of kludge contain the
'd',
> or is it silent? 98% of people here in the UK seem to pronounce the
d,
> but I've heard a few who don't. Mind you, 'bodge' is an equivalent
and
> more commonly heard over here than kludge.
"Bodge" doesn't mean the same thing at all. You're probably thinking
of "botch", which means (v) to screw something up, or (n) something
which is screwed up. "Kludge" means to make something work, but in an
inelegant or clumsy fashion. "Bodge", however, means to adjust or
adapt something carefully to fit, perhaps in a way not originally
intended; "bodgers" were originally people who did the final fitting of
parts to machines and the like.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
> Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 16:23:12 +1200
> From: "Mike van Bokhoven" <mike at ambientdesign.com>
> Subject: Re: origins of "kludge"
> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
> <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
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> > On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Jim Isbell, W5JAI wrote:
> > > The French word for "bell" is "cloche" which is pronounced not
> > > un-similarly to kludge. Thus, this word was bastardized by the
> > > Americans and an unwieldy arrangement came to be known as
> a cloche or
> > > later as a Kludge.
> > Interesting. I'd always assumed it was a corruption of some form
> > of the German word 'kluge' (clever).
>
> Me too. And I've seen a few etymologies/timelines that agree
> with that, the
> 'cloche' thing sounds a little far-fetched. But you never know...
>
> Here's a good summary of fairly official sources on this one:
>
> http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=kludge
>
>
> M.
That's probably correct. In the 1990s I retained Cal. Berkeley math wiz
Elwyn Berlekamp as an expert on Reed-Solomon coding and he told me that
"kludge" was a rough contraction of "collossal" and "huge".
