27 Dec
2007
27 Dec
'07
2:55 p.m.
Fred Cisin wrote:
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
This whole idea strikes me as just plain
crazy...
But! For some reason the above reminded me of something that I was
considering early on, probably early 1970s or so. Instead of a drum just
use a loop of tape. You can start with an old reel-to-reel deck, ignoring
Howzbout an 8-track?
Unfortunately, the kids today don't even remember them, so wouldn't fully
appreciate the absurdity. Ben alias woodelf wrote:
Was not the stringy floppy a medium like that?
First off, I would like to add that I am only 17 but to answer the question, yes, the
stringy floppy was to a degree
just like the 8-track drive people made. Actually, I have here instructions on how to
modify a regular 8-track deck
to work with a regular TRS-80 model I.
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27 Dec
27 Dec
3:12 p.m.
john ball wrote:
First off, I would like to add that I am only 17 but
to answer the question, yes, the stringy floppy was to a degree
just like the 8-track drive people made. Actually, I have here instructions on how to
modify a regular 8-track deck
to work with a regular TRS-80 model I.
I am 17+ :)
I think a drum computer model be made using
standard components and this could give some
insite on the real hardware design.
PS. Remember the first computer Cray built was using
Ge reject transistors.
8:19 p.m.
Only 17?
You must either work with (!) or have a relative involved with retro computers, as I
can't see how else someone so young would know (let alone be interested) in retro
computers.
Most of us grew up with computers in the 80's or earlier.
Drifting a little, I just a Spectrum emu for the Amiga (yes, I'm running a Speccy emu
on an Amiga emu on a laptop running Windows 2K!) where the copyright date is 1982. Does
that make the Spectrum emu a 48K Speccy emulator? I have only used a ZX Spectrum 128K
before.
Happy Holidays,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk
john ball <ballsandy at msn.com> wrote:
First off, I would like to add that I am only 17 but to answer the question, yes, the
stringy floppy was to a degree
just like the 8-track drive people made. Actually, I have here instructions on how to
modify a regular 8-track deck
to work with a regular TRS-80 model I.
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