Ethan Dicks <ethan_dicks_at_yahoo.com> said:
>I have a Quest Elf that I built from a kit as a kid. It was the Popular
>Science design, pre-1861 video chip. It has a speaker, a Q LED, 8 toggle
>switches for data, DMA/EF4 pushbutton, RUN/LOAD/MEMPROT toggles and the
>original TIL311 latching hex displays. My PCB is rev 2.1, 1979. I bought
>just the PCB and assembly plans for $35 around 1980. The entire kit was
>available for $99.
OK, I stand corrected. I know you and I talked about this before. But I
never could find an advertisement for the Quest ELF. But with a date,
I finally found it. The print in their ad is so small I could read this ad
20 times and not see this one little line that says "original ELF kit board
$14.95". I looked through all the 1979 BYTEs and I saw the board for sale
but I didn't see a $99 original ELF kit. The Super ELF kit was $106.95. My
only Quest catalog is for 1982 and I didn't see the board or the kit in it.
But I'll look again tonight. And I'll dig out BYTE for 80 and 81.
How's the ELF99 coming?
allisonp_at_world.std.com (Allison J Parent) said:
> Quest Electornics, ELF as per the PE article. I have one.
Was your ELF a full kit or just a bare board when you bought it?
And I guess this is as good a time as any to ask if anyone has a
booklet called "Programs for the COSMAC ELF: GRAPHICS" by Paul C.
Moews. I have the other two ": INTERPRETERS" and ": MUSIC and GAMES"
that I can copy for a copy of ": GRAPHICS".
Thanks,
--Doug
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