30 Apr
2004
30 Apr
'04
1:57 p.m.
I need two items to complete my omnibot 2000 robot. Missing are the tray and
the home base. I have searched google and eBay with no luck. The sites that
sell parts only have manuals, batteries, and chargers (from Radio Shack). It
took me a year to get a remote control for it. Anyone with an extra tray?
Thanks for your time.
30 Apr
30 Apr
2:12 p.m.
On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 08:57:16PM -0500, Keys wrote:
I need two items to complete my omnibot 2000 robot....
I don't have any parts for an OmniBot 2000, but do you (or anyone else on
the list) happen to have an RB5X? I just learned that the company is
still in business (and they respond to e-mail, eventually!)
We had an RB5X at COSI (The Center of Science and Industry) in the mid-1980s.
Three of the folks from the company came out to the museum to show us what
it could do. One of its "features" is that you talk to it and program it
over a serial connection in... Tiny Basic. That's right... it's an INS8073-
based robot!
I don't have any parts for one, but at home, I _think_ I still have a disc
of programs that we wrote for it twenty years ago. If anyone on the list
has one, I'd be curious to swap bits (obviously, it will take me a while to
reciprocate).
In other 8073 news, I did hear back from someone who, I think, was affiliated
with Basicon. He promised to dig through his stacks of dusty paper and see
what he has in the way of docs for the MC-1N Rev A. If all he has is paper,
I might ask someone on the list to be the receiver in return for scans.
-ethan
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Ethan Dicks, A-130-S Current South Pole Weather at 01-May-2004 02:00 Z
South Pole Station
PSC 468 Box 400 Temp -85.5 F (-65.4 C) Windchill -141.6 F (-96.5 C)
APO AP 96598 Wind 11.6 kts Grid 124 Barometer 672.3 mb (10917 ft)
Ethan.Dicks(a)amanda.spole.gov http://penguincentral.com/penguincentral.html
1 May
1 May
12:19 a.m.
Sorry I do not have a RB5X yet. Sounds like a cool robot to have in the
collection.
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From: "Ethan Dicks" <dickset(a)amanda.spole.gov
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30, 2004 9:12 PM
Subject: Re: Still Looking for Parts to Complete Omnibot 2000
On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 08:57:16PM -0500, Keys wrote:
mid-1980s.
I need two items to complete my omnibot 2000
robot....
I don't have any parts for an OmniBot 2000, but do you (or anyone else on
the list) happen to have an RB5X? I just learned that the company is
still in business (and they respond to e-mail, eventually!)
We had an RB5X at COSI (The Center of Science and Industry) in the Three of the folks from the company came out to the
museum to show us what
it could do. One of its "features" is that you talk to it and program it
over a serial connection in... Tiny Basic. That's right... it's an
INS8073-
based robot!
I don't have any parts for one, but at home, I _think_ I still have a disc
of programs that we wrote for it twenty years ago. If anyone on the list
has one, I'd be curious to swap bits (obviously, it will take me a while
to
reciprocate).
In other 8073 news, I did hear back from someone who, I think, was
affiliated
with Basicon. He promised to dig through his stacks
of dusty paper and
see
what he has in the way of docs for the MC-1N Rev A.
If all he has is
paper,
I might ask someone on the list to be the receiver in
return for scans.
-ethan
--
Ethan Dicks, A-130-S Current South Pole Weather at 01-May-2004 02:00
Z
South Pole Station
PSC 468 Box 400 Temp -85.5 F (-65.4 C) Windchill -141.6 F
(-96.5 C)
APO AP 96598 Wind 11.6 kts Grid 124
Barometer 672.3 mb (10917
ft)
Ethan.Dicks(a)amanda.spole.gov
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