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2023-12-05 6:56 pm
Good day all!. Young at heart fella with decades of life experience. Now with time on my hands to return to a first love of building practical stuff with technology.
Things have changed a bit since first hand-crafting code in assembler on 8080 and 6805 MCU's 😆 .
Always learning and willing to help. The joy is in the journey!
robotBuilder reacted
2023-12-05 7:51 pm
I also handcrafted assembly language code for a 6502, used it to control a model railroad. Things certainly have changed.
Welcome to the forum!
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Bill
"Never trust a computer you can’t throw out a window." — Steve Wozniak
2023-12-05 8:42 pm
Welcome to the forum.
Assembler was my main language in the old days. Z80 (TRS-80), 6502 (C64), 68000 (Amiga) and so on for speed. Did lots and lots of programming the hardware in those hobby machines including interfacing them to my other love electronics. Only ever as a hobby not like most or all the other oldies here with a professional background in one or both subjects.
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2023-12-05 9:30 pm
@robotbuilder Oh gosh! How could I forget the ubiquitous Z80! Used that in work and on an add-in card on my Apple // clone so I could run CP/M.
Memories 😊
2023-12-05 11:07 pm
It's a blast from the past! Apple II (my favorite computer to this day), Z80's and CP/M (I owned an Osborne that ran CP/M).
And my first "home built" computer used the Motorola 60000, in a HUGE 64-pin DIP package.
That stuff was fun, but of course it's all just history now. So @xylopyrographer, what interests you now? Microcontrollers, microcomputers - we have lots of great new toys now!
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Bill
"Never trust a computer you can’t throw out a window." — Steve Wozniak
2023-12-07 1:53 pm
I'm working on some videos that I hope to upload to YouTube about getting my original 1975 Altair 8800 up and running again. To that end I'm building what is called an Altair 8800c with present day components. Below is a link that got me started on this journey of building another Altair.
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Topic starter
2023-12-07 7:01 pm
@dronebot-workshop Great question! Seems I'm perpetually in a "that's looks interesting—I should learn more..." mode 😀 .
Though my primary thing is exploring things that people can interact with in the real world. So if it beeps, moves, whirs or can help simplify, inform or automate then I'll take a boo. (So yeah, pretty much anything!)
I got back into this area as I needed to find a solution to a particular issue and so created a Wi-Fi enabled tally light for use in multi camera streaming for live production. Learned a ton of stuff doing that project.
Working off and on on an iteration of that device in a custom enclosure (so now learning FreeCAD) using a custom PCB (learning KiCAD and/or LibrePCB).
I've created a few libraries to overcome a few issues found along the way, here, here, and here — hoping others might find them of use.
Looking as well into LoRa technologies to try and monitor things at location a few hundred km away — a bit of a trick as there are no LoRaWAN nodes in the vicinity either.
Anyway, thanks for this resource and your YouTube channel. Places I wish I know about when I started into this!
This post was modified 5 months ago by Xylopyrographer
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