29 Oct
2006
29 Oct
'06
4:33 p.m.
On 10/30/06, Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
One can do alpha on a 7-segment display, plus one could connect a
TVT-6 "TV Typewriter" to a KIM-1 without too much difficulty
(installing the "upstream tap" being the most invasive step).
I think the point here was to differentiate simple "four-banger
calculators" from computing devices, not to exclude something that is
by nearly all definitions a "computer". Think of the basic Elf design
- the primary display is a pair of LED hex displays (TIL-311 or
similar HP displays) - unlike a KIM's soft-driven 7-segment LEDs, a
TIL-311 can *only* display 0-9/A-F, hardly full alphanumeric, but who
would dispute an Elf is a computer?
-ethan
On Sun, 29 Oct 2006, Tony Duell wrote:
A slippery-slope indeed.
More seriously, I think we need to define
'computer'.
a very risky endeavor It should have
alphanumeric (and not just numeric) I/O.
KIM-1?