11 Sep
2005
11 Sep
'05
11:51 a.m.
Michael,
I remember reading about that project too back then. My old brother had
that mag and I would always borrow it. I just dug out my SWTPC 6800
(both) from the garage this past summer. An old buddy let me have these
way back after he was tired of it. This also came with the docs and a
bunch of boards too. I hope I can ping some questions to you when I'm
working on this. Right now, I'm getting our Altair 680b he bought back
then restored plus some other machines. I'm trying to get these ready in
time for VCF East 3 in NJ.
=Dan
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Michael Holley wrote:
I finished my Nixie tube clock. (My first try at this
was around 1971.)
http://www.swtpc.com/mholley/PopularElectronics/Dec1970/PE_Dec1970.htm
I could not figure out how to wire the tens of hours module to the
hours module. The magazine article was very vague and even misleading
about that.
So one night I sent an email to Gary Kay, the designer, and the next
morning I had a response. How is that for tech support 35 years after
the fact?
Gary Kay later designed many of the SWTPC 6800 computer systems.
http://www.swtpc.com/mholley/History/Gary_Kay.htm
http://www.swtpc.com/mholley/BYTE/BYTE.HTM
Michael Holley
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