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Il Comune di Forte dei Marmi, in collaborazione con Lilio Tarabella e il suo ‘Tarabella Hotel’, ci hanno offerto la possibilità di esporre, nella splendida cornice del Fortino di Piazza Garibaldi, una selezione delle macchine ‘storiche’ più significative nel percorso evolutivo di Apple.
Al Fortino sono arrivati l’Apple Lisa, il TAM (Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh), il Portable, il Macintosh 128k, i Newton, le Quicktake, il Set Top Box, l’Apple II, l’Apple //c, l’eMate, e tanti altri pezzi rarissimi del Museo All About Apple.
8BASIC (C) is a BASIC interpreter developed by manufacturer G.G in 2010 for the homemade Z80/AM95 8 bit NANO COMPUTER.
COMMANDS
The 8BASIC COMMANDS are used in direct mode from the "Menù"
1 "RUN CMD " ; cause the 8BASIC program to begin operating
2 "NEW CMD " ; erase the 8BASIC program and launch the program editor
3 "LIST CMD" ; launch the 8BASIC program editor
4 "SAVE SER" ; send out to an IBM PC the binary 8BASIC program resident in RAM through the serial port
5 "LOAD SER" ; write in RAM the binary 8BASIC program read from an IBM PC through the serial port
6 "SAVE PAR" ; send out to an IBM PC the binary 8BASIC program resident in RAM through the parallel port
7 "LOAD PAR" ; write in RAM the binary 8BASIC program read from an IBM PC through the parallel port
During editing you can delete and insert new lines. Navigation through statements and variables has been strongly facilitated in submenus
A flyer for the 'Classic Computing Appreciation Nights' at the Artifactory, run in conjunction with 'Circuit Hacking Mondays'. And, for the benefit of those Perth locals who might stumble across this via a search engine, the text reads:
Classic Computing Appreciation Nights
You are standing in a large warehouse. Around you are several people of impeccable taste, presumably collectors of classic micro- and minicomputers. Behind them are some workbenches with test equipment on them.
>look at people
Most appear to be setting up, repairing, upgrading, modifying or just playing with their classic computers; a few are talking about new projects for their Commodores, Apples and DECs.
>look at benches
You see several soldering stations and CROs, a logic analyser, PAL/SECAM/NTSC and analogue RGB monitors, an EPROM programmer, a large collection of operating system installation kits and a machine capable of reading most of the common floppy disk and tape formats. On one of the benches is a flyer.
>look at flyer
The flyer is of a Commodore 64 and its monitor. The text on the screen says:
When: every second Monday between 7pm—10pm (see website for dates)
Where: the Artifactory — Perth's very own hackerspace in Mount Lawley
Cost: advice and ideas are free; workshop use is $10 waged/$5 unwaged
For more information contact Peter at prd@art********.org.au or on 0415 307 ***.
>take flyer
Taken.
A DIL socket cut down to 2x12 pins provided the offset spacer and connection to the CF/RTC/UART daughterboard
Grazie all’iniziativa di Bruno Grampa, nella prestigiosa cornice del parco di Villa Toeplitz a Varese si è tenuto domenica 27 aprile 2003, presso il MUel- Museo Elettronico, la prima edizione di “Varese Retrocomputing”. La manifestazione si è articolata su un intero pomeriggio, a partire dalle ore 14:30, con interventi di esperti e collezionisti di retrocomputing che hanno presentato, in funzione, numerosi computer che hanno fatto la storia dell’informatica. All About Apple è stata presente con il simbolo dell’AMUG e del Museo, l’Apple Lisa, su cui è stato tenuto un keynote da Alessio Ferraro.
I've always been fond of the IIe - the first one I saw was at Myers back when they had a dedicated business computing department (although technically it was the Platinum model), and I really impressed - it seemed so much fancier that the VIC-20s and Commodore 64s I was used to.
In the early 1980's a boom in the UK home computer market led to many small outfits being set up to write software for the myriad of machines being produced. ByteLand were one of those, producing a small number of games for the Oric-1. This advert is from Personal Computer News Issue 30, of 1983.
Look at the Nikon D200 screen. You will see a picture of the HP Computer the camera is sitting on ;-)
Here is a front view of the 1802 Membership Card retro-computing in an Altoid can. The numbered switches are used to enter instructions and data. The switches and pushbutton on the left are used to control the state of the computer. The 'Q' and data LEDs are the only provided output. The parallel port and power connector round everything out.
Un Sinclair C5! Sembra in buono stato, chissà se funziona ancora?
A Sinclair C5! Looks in good condition, who knows if it still works?
The worst of the cosmetic damage.
First, the paper tape reader (bottom) has a cracked housing. It's a clean-ish crack all the way through, so I stopped at TAP Plastics today to get some plastic weld for it. It should go back together OK, though it won't be cosmetically perfect.
Next, the paper tape punch (up top) is missing its characteristic clear plastic buttons. While I was at TAP I picked up a foot of 5/8" clear plastic rod, it's a perfect fit. I'll cut 1" sections, melt a little catch into the bottom so they don't pop out the top, and it should look and function as if it were completely original.
Debugging why the telescope (literally) crashed. Try doing that when it's replaced with the new computer. You'll need to bring in some pimply faced youth to add some code to the TCL interface.
This is the lower of the two boards that comprise the membership card. The RCA COSMAC 1802 processor is the big chip on the right. 32K of static RAM is on the left. The remainder of the components are supporting latches and gates. There is a super cap in the lower right corner used to maintain memory when power is disconnected.
Grazie all’iniziativa di Bruno Grampa, nella prestigiosa cornice del parco di Villa Toeplitz a Varese si è tenuto domenica 27 aprile 2003, presso il MUel- Museo Elettronico, la prima edizione di “Varese Retrocomputing”. La manifestazione si è articolata su un intero pomeriggio, a partire dalle ore 14:30, con interventi di esperti e collezionisti di retrocomputing che hanno presentato, in funzione, numerosi computer che hanno fatto la storia dell’informatica. All About Apple è stata presente con il simbolo dell’AMUG e del Museo, l’Apple Lisa, su cui è stato tenuto un keynote da Alessio Ferraro.
Some years back I met someone with a pile of IIc's in his shed, which he passed on for me to look after. I still hope to do something in order to display them properly one day. Interestingly, one of them had the LCD display shown here - they're quite unusual, as they were truly awful at the time, so comparatively few were sold.
I'm very fond of the IIc - it see it as one of the three computers which seem to best exemplify Steve Job's particular vision, for good or ill.
The LED daughter board mounts behind the HEX keypad fascia board, locating each LED adjacent to its corresponding key.