13 Dec
2000
13 Dec
'00
4:57 a.m.
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 20:20:52 +0000 (GMT)
From: ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell)
Subject: Re: Apricot & G4IDE
The other possibility is that this is some kind of timing card (the
counters would give that impression) and that the audio
signal from the
radio receiver is fed into the Cassette Input of the ZX81.
You may have
the complete unit apart from the software.
Have you considered looking him up in the callbook (assuming
he's in it)
and writing to him to ask what the unit is?
I did a google search for him and found him in Boston, Lincs. It IS a timing
card but it's for the Spectrum, not ZX81, despite the edge connector. The
software was called RTTY and he can't remember that much about it since it
was so long ago, but it received weather FAX data by radio and RTTY graphed
it up on a Speccy......cool :)
As an aside I've just won an Apple 5 1/4 drive (still in its plastic bag :)
that will go nicely on my Woz GS. The problem I now have is getting the disk
images off one of my Macs and onto a 5 1/4" disk! Any clues? I don't yet
have a suitable drive on the PC but getting one won't be too
difficult.......
adrian/witchy
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