Both of my DEC DTC01 Voice synthesis units are working great now. As such, I put a little demo of one of them singing Jingle Bells for the holiday season and #DOScember. Using an IBM PC AT and Telix for scripting. https://t.co/bkiUvpukid #vintagecomputing#retrocomputing#DEC
@tschak Most of these systems are voice activated. When you pick up the phone, don't speak. If you hear silence, wait until the system hangs up. They likely won't call again. If you do speak, it will connect you to an telemarketer standing by and keep your number for the next time.
@MarkJCarney, I don't know what @JustinTrudeau future plans are but consider a "Special Ambassador to the US" role specifically for the Canada and US Trade War. Not that you can't handle it but it will piss off POTUS. I am happy to pay more to live in Canada.
Very excited to have one of the pictures of my Commodore 8296 from my website as the cover image of a new Japanese book on "Computer Nostalgia: Product Design for Early Personal Computers", I think. I wish I could read Japanese :) Looks like a great book.
@OnyxCrack No, I've only had 3 KIM-1s with bad RAM out of 9 so far. I have replace a couple of digit displays as they had bad segments as well but otherwise, I've had good luck with them.
This KIM-1 drove me crazy. With two bad RAM chips (one seemingly intermittent) and a bad display digit, itโs finally working. Now all if my KIM-1s are working for the first time.
I think my definition of โLongLifeโ might be slightly different than these capacitors. This is from a Tandy Sensation power supply that would not power up. I can see why.
@leonkiriliuk I've had this happen before. The only scam I could come up with, other than those who just forgot they ordered stuff, is that the buyer is giving the seller an interest free loan for a month or so.
@KevEdwardsRetro I asked around myself as they are Second Edition books with no printing edition notes. No one has ever seen them. I got them from a defunct early Canadian Commodore dealer along with a bunch of other manuals. Among other things was a KIM-1 brochure.
@techknight2 I figured they used Ninjaflex. I've used it to 3d print a belt in the past for an obsolete gear tooth configuration on a 1965 Olivetti Programma 101. Works very well.