On 10/31/2005 at 5:06 PM Gil Carrick wrote:
SWTP being a Texas company they would go well in our
museum. What are you
looking for?
Gil, I'm not a collector. Just finding someone with a SWTP TVT that
they're trying to get operational would be sufficient. I also have the
assembly instructions and schematics.
I've long since discarded the (very heavily modified) main board. One of
the first changes I recall doing was modifying it to display 16 lines of 64
characters and recognize a few more control characters. Interestingly,
that last was mostly done with diodes and pullups instead of TTL gates.
Shortly after that, I graduated to a Beehive Super Bee terminal.
The serial board has an NE555 installed on it with a small trimpot as a
baud rate generator. IIRC, 7497's were pretty hard to come by back then.
I think I've got a taker, for the cards, BTW. Just need to get them into a
small Priority Mail box and off to the PO.
Cheers,
Chuck
...
Speaking of old stuff, when looking for something
else, I ran
across the serial and RAM cards for the SWTP TV
Typewriter--are they worth anything or are they better used
as landfill material?
Cheers,
Chuck
A. G. (Gil) Carrick, Director
The Museum at CSE
University of Texas at Arlington
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
Box 19015, 471 S Cooper Street
Arlington, TX 76019
817-272-3620
http://www.cse.uta.edu/TheMuseum at CSE/