[torontocbm] Re: Just wondering, has anyone in the group...

  • From: STEVE GRAY <sjgray@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: torontocbm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:46:04 -0800 (PST)

It was more of a game, but it programmed with hex codes. It had a base unit 
with the keypad and 2-digit hex display and a small hood-like box held up by 
two posts with the speaker and 4x4 led matrix. Ontop of the matrix you could 
mount small cards to help play each game. I remember the keypad being made of 
very cheap plastic and not working very well. I'm pretty sure there was only 
one main chip to the entire thing. I think I threw out the main section, but I 
manage to find the top hood thing and the cards. I think I still have the 
manual somewhere.

I did a web search and for the life of me can't find a single picture of the 
thing...

Steve


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>From: "Miraglia, Walter" <Walter.Miraglia@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: "torontocbm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <torontocbm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Thu, January 21, 2010 4:52:33 PM
>Subject: [torontocbm] Re: Just wondering, has anyone in the group...
>
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>Did this trainer  play music and have goofy games on it?
>And it looked kinda like et? If I recall correctly?
> 
>Played yankee doddle or oh suzanna  if I recall or 
>Was it a serious computer?
> 
> 
> 
>From:torontocbm-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:torontocbm-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
>On Behalf Of STEVE GRAY
>Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 4:46 PM
>To: torontocbm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [torontocbm] Re: Just wondering, has anyone in the group...
> 
>I have heard of the ELF but never used one.
> 
>My first "computer" was a Radio Shack "trainer" with hex keypad, two-digit LED 
>and a 4x4 matrix LED "screen"...
> 
>My first REAL computer was an Ohio Scientific (OSI) C4P..... 6502 @ 1MHz, 8K 
>ram, BASIC in ROM, cassette storage and 16-colour 64x32 character text-only 
>video... Bought in 1981. It was closely based on the earlier OSI  "SuperBoard 
>II" single-board-computer. That held me for a while, while I learned 6502 
>assembly language. We used PET 4032's at school and a Wang system with 
>card-reader.
>Steve
> 
> 
>>From:"Miraglia, Walter" <Walter.Miraglia@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>To: "torontocbm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <torontocbm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>Sent: Thu, January 21, 2010 1:20:19 PM
>>Subject: [torontocbm] Just wondering, has anyone in the group....
>>Ever messed around with COSMAC ELF?
>>RCA 1802 based micro computer chip.
>> 
>>I’m in the process of building an ELF 2000
>>From www.sparetimegizmos.com    and wondered
>>If anyone shared my passion for these old so called “Single
>>Board Computers…”
>> 
>>I built an ELF II with pixie chip and 2K of ram when I was in
>>Grade 10.  In keeping with my interest in Early home computers,
>>I was wondering what everyone’s first computer was…
>> 
>>Mine was the above mentioned Elf that I built from scratch…
>> 
>>( Incidentally, I will have with me the circuit board and manual for the
>>ELF 2000 tonight at the meeting if anyone is interested in seeing it…
>>I just got it today so it’s totally bare….. )
>> 

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