10 Sep
1998
10 Sep
'98
11:39 p.m.
Jim wrote:
I was just watching a thing on robots and they mentioned some
of the early 80s attempts. Does anyone have in their collection
a H.E.R.O, or other robots of that vintage?
I was at a thrift store about a year ago, and saw a Max Steele Robot for
sale. With a price of $10 including manuals but no main battery but in
pretty good shape, I purchased it. After mounting a 12V gel cell on the
back (it wouldn't fit inside the robot), we found out it worked quite
nicely. A web search turned up a web site (don't have it handy) where the
statistics and more info was available. Apparently there were only about
5000 of these units made. It uses, IIRC, a 6502 microprocessor and has a
slot for program cartridges.