[OZAPRS] PK232 (Revisited)

[Andrew Rich]

That or his Hoover vacuum cleaner 

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Andrew Rich

On 04/01/2011, at 18:27, "Gordon Taylor" <gordon.t at internode.on.net> wrote:

> Darryl,
>    I wonder if the core memory module may have been from a Westinghouse
> W2500 computer being removed from a power station in your early working
> career..
> 
> Regards,
> Gordo VK4VP
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au [mailto:ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au] On
> Behalf Of Darryl Smith
> Sent: Tuesday, 4 January 2011 18:08
> To: Australian APRS Users
> Subject: Re: [OZAPRS] PK232 (Revisited)
> 
> 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
> 
> ---------
> Darryl Smith, VK2TDS POBox 169 Ingleburn NSW 2565 Australia 
> Mobile Number 0412 929 634 [+61 4 12 929 634 Int] - 02 9618 6459 
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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.
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
>       Gavin Rogers                     |  Amateur radio station VK6HGR
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