19 Aug
2002
19 Aug
'02
4:38 p.m.
At 01:47 PM 8/19/02 -0700, you wrote:
I got this VIP for substantially less than that at a recent hamfest. Mike Haas and I
had both been over this guys stuff at least three times then I decided to go through the
stuff one more time while Mike went and got the car. That's when I found the VIP.
Needless to say, Mike was quite upset! It's amazing how many times you can look
through the same stuff and still find something that you previously overlooked.
--- Joe <rigdonj(a)cfl.rr.com> wrote:
The VIPER news-letters are really great. There's loads of good info in them. Mike
has PILES of RCA docs for the Cosmac, ELF, VIP and other 1802 stuff.
At 10:36 AM 8/19/02 -0700, you wrote:
Good for you.
--- Joe <rigdonj(a)cfl.rr.com> wrote:
You bet! I was in a surplus store today and...
... did find a 6 inch high stack of manuals for the RCA Cosmac VIP
:-) :-) :-) :-)
Did you get them? If so, what part numbers?
http://cgi6.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dllViewSellersOtherItems&userid=r…
No one seemed interested so I put them on E-bay.
If you're interested in
the VIP or ELFs then take a good look at them, there's LOTS of good info
in them.
Looks like I have originals for all of the photocopied data sheets
and RCA manuals you have (and possibly one or two you don't), but I
do not have any issues of VIPER. I have a VIP too (altough Mike has it at the
moment). I bought at a
hamfest earlier this year. I bought the manuals from the same people
except they were at their store. 99% chance that these manuals went with
that same VIP.
I got my VIP about 16 years ago for $35 at Dayton (same year I got
an ASR-33 w/110 baud data set for $20). What manuals I have, came
from the local RCA distributor for cover price ($5) or free.
Somewhere, I have a cassette of CHIP-8 and most of the CHIP-8 games
from the VIP manuals - I typed it all in and saved it to tape myself.
One of my ultra-low priority projects is to locate the tape, slurp
it into a modern machine and cut MP3s of the programs and see if I
can use my Rio PMP300 (or portable CDDA/MP3 player) as a load device.
That would be "interesting"!
Joe
-ethan
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