ET-3400 Floppy Drive

From: Paul Pennington <paulpenn_at_knology.net>
Date: Fri Jul 9 10:22:29 2004

    Mike;

    Thanks for posting the reference to the Kilobaud article. I found it in
my set, but it does not seem to be useful now. The author uses a PIA for a
parallel keyboard input. Most people now will probably use a serial port to
whatever PC happens to be sitting on their desk. The output of the PIA was
a parallel connection to a video card, as well as a bit-banger serial
connection to a cassette interface. Memory expansion was a 16K S-100 card
(woo-hoo).

    This is so much easier today. A 64K x 8 memory in one chip is available
for a few dollars. I plan on using an ACIA for the serial connection, and
adapting one of the many programs to connect to a PC. Once there, any of
the resources available on the PC can support the ET-3400 (files, printer,
perhaps internet?).

    I can provide a hard copy by mail if anybody wants it, but again, it's
not useful.

    Later,

    Paul Pennington
    Augusta, Georgia


----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike" <dogas_at_bellsouth.net>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 8:41 AM
Subject: Re: ET-3400 Floppy Drive


> Hi Steven, Paul, Joe...
>
> Sorry for the black-out. The Kilobaud issue that I was thinking of was
> from Sept/79 with the article "Best of Both Worlds." Although, I was
> mistaken recalling a floppy interface when actually the dude had
interfaced
> an Econoram and a Digital Group's video boards to the trainer....
>
>
>
> ;)
> - Mike: dogas_at_bellsouth.net
>
>
>
>
> >
> > Steven wrote:
> >
> > Anyone have the Kilobaud article where someone connected a FDD
> > to a Heathkit ET-3400 ?
> >
> > I just looked through my end of year indexes for my
> > Kilobaud/Microcomputing magazines, but I didn't see this article (or any
> > ET-3400 articles, for that matter). Sometimes the titles hide the
> contents
> > pretty well. If you can come up with an issue citation, I can make a
> copy
> > of the article.
> >
> > Paul Pennington
> > Augusta, Georgia
> >
>
>
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