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Article #38Re: TRS-80/PDP-8 radio fun
From: wsin... Kees Huizing
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 1990 10:57
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 1990 10:57
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sfw...@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Stephen White) writes: >Ah yes, the Model I. My first machine. As I recall, one October, >the magazine '80 Micro printed a program which would generate a >Talking Pumpkin; the Pumpkin's mouth would open and close depending >on the volume of the cassette input. There were games for this machine with sound effects. There was no speaker, but the program turned the relay for the cassette player on and off, producing all kinds of ratlling sounds. Some people advised not to do this, since it would ruin the contacts of the relay switch. Real Model I owners soldered a capacitor next to the switch... -- Kees Huizing - Eindhoven Univ of Techn - Dept Math & Comp Sc - The Netherlands DOMAIN: wsin...@win.tue.nl BITNET: wsdckeesh@heitue5 FAX: +31-40-436685
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!hp4nl!eutrc3!tuewsd!wsinkees From: wsin...@lso.win.tue.nl (Kees Huizing) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: TRS-80/PDP-8 radio fun Message-ID: <799@tuewsd.lso.win.tue.nl> Date: 2 Jan 90 10:57:10 GMT References: <1989Dec11.165713.11604@world.std.com> <YZVK1x600VsLM0i3t1@andrew.cmu.edu> <951@bbx.UUCP> <6321@wpi.wpi.edu> <12762@watcgl.waterloo.edu> Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Lines: 15 Posted: Tue Jan 2 11:57:10 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit