On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 08:57:16PM -0500, Keys wrote:
> I need two items to complete my omnibot 2000 robot....
I don't have any parts for an OmniBot 2000, but do you (or anyone else on
the list) happen to have an RB5X? I just learned that the company is
still in business (and they respond to e-mail, eventually!)
We had an RB5X at COSI (The Center of Science and Industry) in the mid-1980s.
Three of the folks from the company came out to the museum to show us what
it could do. One of its "features" is that you talk to it and program it
over a serial connection in... Tiny Basic. That's right... it's an INS8073-
based robot!
I don't have any parts for one, but at home, I _think_ I still have a disc
of programs that we wrote for it twenty years ago. If anyone on the list
has one, I'd be curious to swap bits (obviously, it will take me a while to
reciprocate).
In other 8073 news, I did hear back from someone who, I think, was affiliated
with Basicon. He promised to dig through his stacks of dusty paper and see
what he has in the way of docs for the MC-1N Rev A. If all he has is paper,
I might ask someone on the list to be the receiver in return for scans.
-ethan
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