Semi OT: Radio Shack Armatron & May '85 issue of Radio-Electronics

From: Ram Meenakshisundaram <rmeenaks_at_olf.com>
Date: Tue Oct 2 16:09:40 2001

Chris wrote:

> >I am planning on converting the Radio Shack Armatron to run off the
> >parallel port
> >of a PeeCee but need the plans to do it. I found the following site
> >that contains the conversion
> >needed for an Atari at:
> >
> >http://www.bitsofthepast.com/atari/arm.html
> >
> >The May '85 Radio-Electronics has the necessary instructions, sooo I was
> >
> >wondering if someone would be kind enought to either scan or mail me the
> >
> >article.
>
> I hate to sound like an AOL'er, but ME TOO! (that is, email me the
> directions too)... I have never thought of doing this, but it certainly
> would make my old armatron WAY more fun. (Humm... now I am going to have
> to pull it out and see if I can hook it up to my Lego Mindstorm... toss a
> remote control car body to the bottom, and I can terrorize my cat for
> hours!)
>
>

Funny you mention the mindstorms! I was planning on doing the same thing!
Once I get it up and running, I wanted to hook it up to lego mindstorms as
well.
But first, we need the instructions. I eventually want to hook it up to my
transputers
to do some serious parallel robotics since I now have a parallel port
tram....

Ram

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