Another hamfest find

From: William Donzelli <william_at_ans.net>
Date: Tue Mar 10 14:18:19 1998

> I found an interesting gadget at a hamfest last weekend. It's a Digi-Viewer
> made by SwTPc. It's a gold colored metal box about 6 x 5 x 4 inches. It
> has the outline of an IC on it and 16 lights around the outline to
> represent each IC pin. There's a cable coming out of the box with a 16 pin
> chip clip on the other end. It's AC powered and looks like it uses
> incandescent bulbs instead of LEDs. I've never heard of one before but it
> looks like a prehistoric IC pin status display. Anyone here ever use one of
> these?

Yes, I have seen them, but that's about it. SWTPC made quite a few things
that were not related to thier 680x based micros - in fact some things
were not digital at all!

William Donzelli
william_at_ans.net
Received on Tue Mar 10 1998 - 14:18:19 GMT