New Research Machines finds

From: Paul Williams <paul_at_frixxon.co.uk>
Date: Thu Dec 18 16:45:40 2003

Jules Richardson wrote:
>
> I would like to get one of the metal ones sometime just to complete the
> collection a little. I've never even seen one to be honest, just the
> plastic variety.

That's not surprising, as the metal ones were a stop-gap measure. I have
a metal one (but only one, sorry). Our two at school were metal, but RML
were just a few miles away!

> That latter document might be useful and is on Paul's site -
>
> http://vt100.net/rm/docs/pn10971.pdf
>
> However, a) it's a web document, b) it's in PDF format and c) it's 30MB
> so I'm not sure what your chances are of being able to get it and read
> it! It's 190 pages or I'd print it out and post a copy if it looked like
> it contained relevant stuff.

It doesn't contain the source listing, but it is a thumping good read,
with details of EMT instructions, RML's CALR "instruction" for writing
PIC on the Z80, and the front panel details.

> I just downloaded it but PDF rendering is slow as hell on this computer
> so I'll look at it on a different machine tomorrow.

You have Acrobat Reader for Linux, haven't you? I struggled along with
xpdf for a bit, but it crawls along when dealing with scans.

-- 
Paul
Received on Thu Dec 18 2003 - 16:45:40 GMT

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