13 Aug
1999
13 Aug
'99
6:45 p.m.
Hi,
I picked up a Bell & Howell "micromodule 85", which is a single board
microprocessor trainer for the Intel 8085. But...I have no docs for it,
and can't find any on the web.
BTW, it's got the worst keypad I've seen...here's an ASCII picture:
4 5 8 C W R
3 6 9 D P D
2 7 A E L S
1 0 B F X B
-------------- ------
white keys red keys
(may look better with fixed font)
Yes, the "1", "2", "3", "4", "5" indeed
climbs up and then turns to the
right. Extremely weird!
It powers up, at least :)
thanks,
Stan Sieler
sieler(a)allegro.com
13 Aug
13 Aug
8:01 p.m.
On Fri, 13 Aug 1999 ss(a)allegro.com wrote:
Hi,
I picked up a Bell & Howell "micromodule 85", which is a single board
microprocessor trainer for the Intel 8085. But...I have no docs for it,
and can't find any on the web.
BTW, it's got the worst keypad I've seen...here's an ASCII picture:
4 5 8 C W R
3 6 9 D P D
2 7 A E L S
1 0 B F X B
-------------- ------
white keys red keys
(may look better with fixed font)
Yes, the "1", "2", "3", "4", "5" indeed
climbs up and then turns to the
right. Extremely weird!
Hmmmm... kinda neat if you're programming in Octal all the time...
then the layout gets almost, dare I use the word: 'ergonomic'.....?
But for other radices, certainly a bug generator to rival the
membrane alphabetic-sequential keyboards of yore. (ABCDE vs. QWERTY)
It powers up, at least :)
This particular state of the machine is useful during de-bugging.
Cheers
John
10:25 p.m.
On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, John Lawson wrote:
Aha! That makes perfect sense. Good eye.
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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BTW, it's
got the worst keypad I've seen...here's an ASCII picture:
4 5 8 C W R
3 6 9 D P D
2 7 A E L S
1 0 B F X B
-------------- ------
white keys red keys
(may look better with fixed font)
Yes, the "1", "2", "3", "4", "5" indeed
climbs up and then turns to the
right. Extremely weird!
Hmmmm... kinda neat if you're programming in Octal all the time...
then the layout gets almost, dare I use the word: 'ergonomic'.....?
14 Aug
14 Aug
8:29 a.m.
Re:
Aha! That makes perfect sense. Good eye.
Well, it might if either the 4/3/2/1 and the 5/6/7/0 columns were in the
same order. ... but ... what's that 0 doing "after" the 7? In short,
I don't see it is vaguely appropriate for octal, either :)
SS
4 5 8 C W R
3 6 9 D P D
2 7 A E L S
1 0 B F X B
-------------- ------
Hmmmm... kinda neat if you're programming in Octal all the time...
then the layout gets almost, dare I use the word: 'ergonomic'.....?
10:03 p.m.
On Sat, 14 Aug 1999 ss(a)allegro.com wrote:
Aha! That makes perfect sense. Good eye.
Well, it might if either the 4/3/2/1 and the 5/6/7/0 columns were in the
same order. ... but ... what's that 0 doing "after" the 7? In short,
I don't see it is vaguely appropriate for octal, either :)
Decimal: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11...
Octal: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 10 11...
Get it?
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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Don't rub the lamp if you don't want the genie to come out.
Coming this October 2-3: Vintage Computer Festival 3.0!
See http://www.vintage.org/vcf for details!
[Last web site update: 05/25/99]
4 5 8 C
W R
3 6 9 D P D
2 7 A E L S
1 0 B F X B
-------------- ------
Hmmmm... kinda neat if you're programming in Octal all the time...
then the layout gets almost, dare I use the word: 'ergonomic'.....?
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