10 Nov
2007
10 Nov
'07
5:04 a.m.
On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 05:04:44AM -0500, M H Stein wrote:
Ah, their logo, the ubiquitous 'hat'...
That's the one. I could probably find out which equation they were
plotting, if the satellites were up.
Just happen to have one; the first version was
actually designed for the
KIM & SYM (SRAM BTW) and when the PET came out they made an
adapter board for it; the second version was specifically for the PET and
had DRAM, and they could both also be used as ordinary expansion
memory.
I knew about the KIM and SYM version, but I didn't know that one could
be fitted into the PET. I think I only knew about the later one in terms
of PET use.
They also made music boards & software for
KIM/SYM/PET,
expansion chassis, and other neat stuff for 6502-powered machines.
Their catalogue'll make you drool...
Since you bring them up, it reminds me that I may have seen a catalog,
long ago, and it was full of neat things that I couldn't afford as a
teenager.
The other catalog that made me drool was the company that advertised
modular I/O products - you could plug them into a PET, or a KIM, or
an AIM-65, etc. They had digital I/O, analog I/O, and maybe even an
S-100 adapter (not that I would have had the first clue what to do
with one of those at 14). I just remember seeing all the devices you
could plug in, and realizing that I could easily spend half as much on
I/O as I did on the computer in the first place. In the end, I did
a lot with the User Port and never did buy many expansion devices.
-ethan
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