Bell & Howell Micromodule 85 : info wanted

From: John Lawson <jpl15_at_netcom.com>
Date: Sat Aug 14 00:01:05 1999

On Fri, 13 Aug 1999 ss_at_allegro.com wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I picked up a Bell & Howell "micromodule 85", which is a single board
> microprocessor trainer for the Intel 8085. But...I have no docs for it,
> and can't find any on the web.
>
> BTW, it's got the worst keypad I've seen...here's an ASCII picture:
>
> 4 5 8 C W R
> 3 6 9 D P D
> 2 7 A E L S
> 1 0 B F X B
> -------------- ------
> white keys red keys
>
> (may look better with fixed font)
>
> Yes, the "1", "2", "3", "4", "5" indeed climbs up and then turns to the
> right. Extremely weird!


   Hmmmm... kinda neat if you're programming in Octal all the time...
then the layout gets almost, dare I use the word: 'ergonomic'.....?

  But for other radices, certainly a bug generator to rival the
membrane alphabetic-sequential keyboards of yore. (ABCDE vs. QWERTY)


>
> It powers up, at least :)
>

  This particular state of the machine is useful during de-bugging.


  Cheers

John
Received on Sat Aug 14 1999 - 00:01:05 BST

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