[OZAPRS] PK232 (Revisited)

[Darryl Smith]

People

If people are wondering what to do with that old TNC you have lying around you could do what I did. I framed them. You can see the photos on page 9 of the TAPR newsletter 

	http://www.tapr.org/psr/psr113.pdf

I took my TNC-1 and TNC-2 to a picture framing company here in Ingleburn and they were able to put them into a picture frame for me for posterity. I also framed the four revisions of a GPRS tracking unit I designed in another frame. And then in a series of three frames I mounted a 16k x 16bit core memory unit from 1978

Each picture frame cost about $50-$70 each depending on the size, and are mounted in my hallway.

Darryl

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-----Original Message-----
From: ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au [mailto:ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au] On Behalf Of Gavin Rogers
Sent: Tuesday, 4 January 2011 6:29 PM
To: Australian APRS Users
Subject: Re: [OZAPRS] PK232 (Revisited)

On 4/01/2011 3:16 PM, Ray Wells wrote:
> 70's era packet gear requiring the bbRAM battery to be removed? I 
> don't think so.
>
> Packet didn't arrive in Australia until about 1982, very close on the 
> heels of the Vancouver (Canada) protocol that preceded ax25.

Not the modems themselves, I meant that the Z80 based architecture they use is 70s-early 80s.



73
Gavin.


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