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>  MP> > This weekend being a long one here in the US, I think I'm either going
>  MP> > work on an 1802 "COSMAC" kit or an "Altaid" kit. Both were purchased
fr
>  MP> > Hart, and the first step is checking that I have all of the parts,
whic
>  MP> > believe I do.
>  MP>
>  MP> It was not a long weekend here in Kentucky.  :)

> No President's Day holiday?

Banks got the holiday, and Federal employees did.  State employees did not.
 Local governments vary and, from what I can tell, most private businesses
were open.

> The Altaid kit is basically another Membership Card but is based on an 8080
> CPU, as was the 1975 Altair 8800. This provides opportunity for a further
pun:
> Altaid 8800. :)

Some of these sound interesting but, since I never used one, I am not sure
how much I would get out of it.  My first computer was a TI99/4A, and my
second was an XT clone.  Both are sitting on the desk behind me and still
work, although both are currently out of commission as my work-from-home
equipment is sitting on top of them.

I did see something the other day in a FB BBS group where someone had
cobbled together a working dial-up modem.  That might get more immediate
use here.  My supply of working, vintage modems has dwindled down to one or
two, and I still have dial-up.  :)

I did play around with the Hercules (???) project some, and briefly had a
"working mainframe" environment on a spare PC.  That is something I have
some familiarity with, although the OSes I am familiar with are still very
much copyrighted and not available to the regular hobbiest.


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