Digging, Digging...

Went digging in the attic again, mainly looking for my serial EPROM burner which has the built-in eraser... and I found a goodly chunk of everything but. :-/ However, I did find my HHC, no power supply. It takes a rather odd critter, too; 9V DC ; and I believe the correct terminology is called "Drum Positive" i.e. on the outside connection of the barrel connector. Most barrel connector PSs have the ground on the outer conductor to help protect it from shorting out; the Tandy 10x/200 are also notable in being wired "drum positive." As I just got done hooking up my Xeltek Superpro L EPROM burner, it's sitting on my desk, with the PS sitting on top of my PC case -- I take a look at the sucker -- *Exactly* what the HHC needs! :-O I check the connector - perfect fit! OK Everybody! Let's all collectively watch Tony jump out of his skin! ;-) I plugged the sucker in, to see if it worked! It does! I set the time, and it keeps between short unplugs (had to test a few ROMs, you know... ;-). I'm guessing the NiCds won't hold much of a charge at all, tho. It's got a smokin' 4K RAM - any upgrades for that, or was that all you got? =-=-=-=-= Found my PC-DOS 7 diskettes - prolly set up a second virtual PC to test 'em out... (it's ontopic this year...) =-=-=-=-= Found lots of my CoCo stuff, I'm trying to get back into that... =-=-=-=-= More shiznit later, but if I don't find my eprom eraser soon, whomever would be willing to burn me a copy of that BASIC might get his/her for free... ;-) Time for bed, gotta be up in a few hours anyway... Laterz, "Merch" -- Roger "Merch" Merchberger | "Profile, don't speculate." SysAdmin, Iceberg Computers | Daniel J. Bernstein zmerch at 30below.com |