[rescue] My little rescue this weekend

[Michael Free]

I've got one of these in my closet with the 16K expansion... runs quite a
while off of a regular 9V battery :)

Mike Free

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Hebel" <nimitz at speakeasy.net>
To: "The List" <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Monday, May 19, 2003 10:58 PM
Subject: Fwd: [rescue] My little rescue this weekend


> > On Monday, May 19, 2003, at 09:49 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
> >
> >>   Hey!  Those are great little machines.  I spent many an enjoyable
> >> evening hacking on mine a very, very long time ago.
>
> > Same here!  Only storebought machine at the time that came with the
> > schematics for the whole board.  I have the board and the memory
> > expansion somewhere.  My father took the original apart and re-mounted
> > it in a snazzy metal Radio Shack box with a slanted front.  He even
> > made the wall-wart into a two-cord floor power supply.
> >
> > All the while I was programming simple graphics pictures and stuff on
> > it. ;-)
>
> >>   I fondly recall the little trick of embedding Z80 machine code as
> >> graphics characters in a REM statement. :)
> >
> > Y'know I don't think I ever tried that one.  I _do_ remember never
> > being able to get peek or poke to work right. ;-)
>
> Mike
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