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Article #1147Re: Microchip buys Hi-Tech Software
From: Joel Koltner
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:35
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:35
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"Ross Vumbaca" <rossv1@au.com.optushome> wrote in message news:49beea83$0$19982$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au... > I know, I have one :-). But not a 1581.... (3.5") At some point towards the end of my undergraduate days, I got it into my head to built a rack-mounted Commodore 64 with a 1541, 1581, and printer interface. I didn't have that much money, although I did have access to a machine shop, so the thing ended up in a pair of large bud boxes screwed together with a beige front panel -- the faces of the drives poking out through milled holes. After putting it all together, I never really did use it. And it weighed a ton -- those 1541 transformers were heavy! It's sitting in my parents' basement these days. I know a lot of that sort of thing you can't even give away these days, but I should probably try next time I visit to find someone on, e.g., comp.sys.cbm who wants such a beast... I think there's an old Amiga 500 down in the basement too... and my brother's Amiga 3000 is sitting in the utility room, next to an HP 28C calculator, that both haven't moved since the early-'90s when he moved out of the house! ---Joel
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