13 Jun
2006
13 Jun
'06
10:28 p.m.
I remember the PE calculator well. I actually built
it, though I
Wow! I don;'t think I';d haev had the patience to put that together...
Even for the time, it was a very old-fashioned design with a lot of
hard-wired logic. Things like the HP9810 were contemporary and did a lot
more with few ICS (said machine used a processor + firmware sort of
structure).
Do you also rememebr the PE CHAMP (along with the CHAMPprog and CHAMPUV)?
That was a 4040-based computer system which fitted (not including the
PSU) onto one (large) piece of stripboard. The other 2 units were an
EPROM programmer and UV eraser, of course. I think I have all the
articles for that too...
-tony