Re: [amsat-bb] Looking for Commodore tracking sw

[John Harrington <johnh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, Howard.  Nice web pages- I wish I had more time for
such things.  Maybe soon.

I can't show you my 8008 rig- I don't even know where it is.
When I was living in Tucson, Arizona, about 20 years ago, a
friend of mine borrowed it, and I haven't seen it since. It
seems he was a science-fiction addict, and there was to be
a big SF convention in town.  He decided to build a full-scale
model of the bridge of the starship Enterprise for display, and
needed something to flash the lights on the consoles in some
convincing manner.  The last time I saw my 8008, my friend
Howard was sitting in the middle of the floor with a big box of
multiplexer chips, about 100 optical isolators, several miles of
wire, a programming manual for the 8008, and a frown on his face.

I went to that convention, mainly to hear my hero Robert A. Heinlein
speak, but I couldn't find Howard nor the bridge of the starship
Enterprise.  I guess Howard realized you can't build a starship
within a two-week schedule, no matter how hard you try.

Best regards,  John  W5EME

Howard Long wrote:
> 
> John
> 
> > Ah, youth.  You youngsters never had the delights of wiring
> > up about 65 SSI  TTL chips to support an Intel 8008 chip,
> > running at (hang on to your seat) 50 KHz!  And I did it in
> > the snow, too.   John  W5EME
> 
> Right that's done it.
> 
> http://www.g6lvb.com/when_i_was_a_young_chap.htm
> 
> Now let's see yours.
> 
> 73 Howard G6LVB
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