--- Doug Coward <dcoward_at_pressstart.com> wrote:
> Ethan Dicks <ethan_dicks_at_yahoo.com> said:
> >I have a Quest Elf that I built from a kit as a kid...
> OK, I stand corrected. I know you and I talked about this before.
Right.
> 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".
Maybe that was the price. It's been so long, I forget. I remember that I
could afford it and not a full-blown Elf II or whatever was common by then.
> I looked through all the 1979 BYTEs and I saw the board for sale
> but I didn't see a $99 original ELF kit.
That came later, I think. Try around 1980 or 1981.
> 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.
I think it was gone by then. By 1982, I had a C-64 (w/1540!) I was getting
paid to program.
> But I'll look again tonight. And I'll dig out BYTE for 80 and 81.
Good place to look. I have a crate of those, too. Some did not survive
a basement flood at my mother's place. :-(
> How's the ELF99 coming?
No progress lately. I got stumped at the layout phase and have had zero
time to devote to it in the past six months. I've been working on my
farm when I'm not pushing bits to pay for the farm. I have some I/O chips
and other parts, a schematic captured in OrCAD and no idea how to get a valid
netlist from OrCAD Capture into OrCAD layout. I can do the tutorials from the
rat's-nests, but I can't get my schematics (even a 2-chip TTL test) to
generate a file that will give me part silhouettes and a rat's-nest.
> 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?
I just bought the bare board. I may have mis-remembered the price. I
know I got the CPU chip and 1822 RAMs from Hughes-Peters here in Columbus. I
also got the RCA VIP docs from them, too, when a friend cleaned out his file
cabinet.
> 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".
Never seen it, sorry.
-ethan
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Received on Mon Jun 21 1999 - 21:32:34 BST