At 01:47 PM 8/19/02 -0700, you wrote:
>
>--- Joe <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com> wrote:
>> At 10:36 AM 8/19/02 -0700, you wrote:
>> >
>> >--- Joe <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com> wrote:
>> >> I was in a surplus store today and...
>> >>... did find a 6 inch high stack of manuals for the RCA Cosmac VIP
>> >> :-) :-) :-) :-)
>> >
>> >Did you get them?
>>
>> You bet!
>
>Good for you.
>
>> If so, what part numbers?
>>
>
>http://cgi6.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dllViewSellersOtherItems&userid=rigdonj
>
>> No one seemed interested so I put them on E-bay. If you're interested in
>> the VIP or ELFs then take a good look at them, there's LOTS of good info
>> in them.
>
>Looks like I have originals for all of the photocopied data sheets
>and RCA manuals you have (and possibly one or two you don't), but I
>do not have any issues of VIPER.
The VIPER news-letters are really great. There's loads of good info in them. Mike has PILES of RCA docs for the Cosmac, ELF, VIP and other 1802 stuff.
>
>> I have a VIP too (altough Mike has it at the moment). I bought at a
>> hamfest earlier this year. I bought the manuals from the same people
>> except they were at their store. 99% chance that these manuals went with
>> that same VIP.
>
>I got my VIP about 16 years ago for $35 at Dayton (same year I got
>an ASR-33 w/110 baud data set for $20). What manuals I have, came
>from the local RCA distributor for cover price ($5) or free.
I got this VIP for substantially less than that at a recent hamfest. Mike Haas and I had both been over this guys stuff at least three times then I decided to go through the stuff one more time while Mike went and got the car. That's when I found the VIP. Needless to say, Mike was quite upset! It's amazing how many times you can look through the same stuff and still find something that you previously overlooked.
>
>Somewhere, I have a cassette of CHIP-8 and most of the CHIP-8 games
>from the VIP manuals - I typed it all in and saved it to tape myself.
>One of my ultra-low priority projects is to locate the tape, slurp
>it into a modern machine and cut MP3s of the programs and see if I
>can use my Rio PMP300 (or portable CDDA/MP3 player) as a load device.
That would be "interesting"!
Joe
>
>-ethan
>
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Received on Mon Aug 19 2002 - 16:38:00 BST