[Xastir] Thanks for the info !

[Curt, WE7U]

On Wed, 25 Jun 2008, Bob Donnell wrote:

> Anyone else remember the MicroColorComputer?  That was Curt's programming
> platform, if I recall right.  I recall the group of packeteers in Seattle
> being amazed that it had enough horsepower to do the receive job.  

Yea, with the chicklet keyboard.  It wasn't as nice to play with as
the full-blown CoCo with the real keyboard.  It had MS BASIC in ROM
which had no ELSE statement.  I ported Forth to that machine so I'd
have something more interesting to program in.  Saved/restored Forth
to/from cassette tapes.


> Of course, Curt, being a typicall not-excessively-funded college student was
> making work what he had access to.  He also wire-wrapped a clone of the GLB
> Electronics PK-1 TNC.  I've no idea (truthfully!) where he got the EPROM
> image to run it though.

Improved the design actually.  More memory and fewer chips.  That
was a LONG time ago.  I was the 3rd packet guy on the air (ever) in
Pullman, WA.  KB7B and K7MM were the first two.  Back then I was
N7CEA.


> Reminds me of someone's tag line I saw not too long ago - something like:
> Engineers:  Making what we can get do what we want.

Story of my life.  Hadn't heard that one before.  I like it!

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