24 Apr
2005
24 Apr
'05
4:02 p.m.
On 4/24/05, Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
On Sun, 2005-04-24 at 06:37 -0400, Ethan Dicks wrote:
I'm in the middle of trying to assemble my collection of 1802 boards
to take to VCF Midwest next month. The ones that _don't_ need
displays are a COSMAC VIP, an RCA ASCII terminal, an RCA Studio II,
and an MSI 88/e portable terminal. The ones that _do_ take displays
are a Quest Elf, a Micro/Elf, an Elf 2K, a Poptronics Elf, and
optionally a BASCOM board. I keep thinking I'm going to burn my own
Elf II board (I have the artwork in a magazine article), but the lack
of compatible key switches keeps pushing the project further down the
stack.
To populate all those boards, I need a total of 14 displays. I have
either exactly enough or I'm two short (have to check the parts bin),
and that's _if_ I borrow 4 from an INS8073 board I have. I used to
buy these things from eBay for like 4/$10, but I haven't seen that guy
selling in a couple of years.
-ethan
Ah... much better. From the picture, just to
comment, those look like
HP 5082-7340 displays which are electrically compatible with TIL-311s...
I'm trying to find a few more genuine
TIL-311s to fill up my Elf 2K and
my Micro/Elf (6 displays *each*).
I think I've got 6 of those displays left - I keep on socketing homebrew
stuff just so I can swap the displays between projects. They look so
darn cool when they're running! :-)