New member - Old C1P user
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2024 3:58 pm
Greetings from South Africa.
It all began in 1981, (I was 15 years old) I was given, by a freinds dad, a Superboard II to "experiment" with... He had been using it to encode / decode Morse Code, on his Ham Radio.
I was so amazed, seeing a text reply, to my typed messge: "HELLO" from a Ham radio station in Canada.
Simply marvelous!
To begin, I first had to convert an old black and white Sony portable tv to accept composite video, and recall being violently shocked, more than once, by the high voltage coil !!!
I taught myself BASIC, and thereafter, assembly, by writing a "Space Invaders" clone. This ultimately influenced my study direction, and in 1984 entered college to study electronics, on a scholarship / bursary from the South African Post Office.
I upgraded to a C1P during that time.
Unfortunately, both the Superboard and C1P were stollen in a home invasion in 1985.
My first job, after (compulsory) Military Service, was producing various printed circuit boards, for a company that made home alarm systems, using the 6502 processor! I wrote the sub-routines that decoded the 7bit radio sensor addressing for that system.
Fast forward some 38 years...
Along the way I learned 'C', writing code for the 68HC11 micro controller, used in a "Spot Welding" timer that I helped design.
I also co-designed, built and coded, a custom "Eddy Current type" engine Dynomometer, for the local Volkwagen engine developement department.
Discovered PIC processors in the early 90's ( still have my PicStart Plus programmer ! )
Then Arduino's came...
Wrote some code for the MultiWii copter (drone) on-line project.
Nostalgia is a "slippery slope", and I find myself needing to recreate the "feelings" associated with such marvelous discoveries during my youth.
50+ year old Cox model engines in control-line aircraft and 40+ year old Kawasaki motorcycles have my attention these days...
Inevitably, I suppose, few weeks ago I began searching for a C1P, which led me here.
I found the various emulators on-line, but using them just does not bring back the same "feelings"... I need MORE!
Hopefully, a C1P will, somehow, find its way to me!
Howard
It all began in 1981, (I was 15 years old) I was given, by a freinds dad, a Superboard II to "experiment" with... He had been using it to encode / decode Morse Code, on his Ham Radio.
I was so amazed, seeing a text reply, to my typed messge: "HELLO" from a Ham radio station in Canada.
Simply marvelous!
To begin, I first had to convert an old black and white Sony portable tv to accept composite video, and recall being violently shocked, more than once, by the high voltage coil !!!
I taught myself BASIC, and thereafter, assembly, by writing a "Space Invaders" clone. This ultimately influenced my study direction, and in 1984 entered college to study electronics, on a scholarship / bursary from the South African Post Office.
I upgraded to a C1P during that time.
Unfortunately, both the Superboard and C1P were stollen in a home invasion in 1985.
My first job, after (compulsory) Military Service, was producing various printed circuit boards, for a company that made home alarm systems, using the 6502 processor! I wrote the sub-routines that decoded the 7bit radio sensor addressing for that system.
Fast forward some 38 years...
Along the way I learned 'C', writing code for the 68HC11 micro controller, used in a "Spot Welding" timer that I helped design.
I also co-designed, built and coded, a custom "Eddy Current type" engine Dynomometer, for the local Volkwagen engine developement department.
Discovered PIC processors in the early 90's ( still have my PicStart Plus programmer ! )
Then Arduino's came...
Wrote some code for the MultiWii copter (drone) on-line project.
Nostalgia is a "slippery slope", and I find myself needing to recreate the "feelings" associated with such marvelous discoveries during my youth.
50+ year old Cox model engines in control-line aircraft and 40+ year old Kawasaki motorcycles have my attention these days...
Inevitably, I suppose, few weeks ago I began searching for a C1P, which led me here.
I found the various emulators on-line, but using them just does not bring back the same "feelings"... I need MORE!
Hopefully, a C1P will, somehow, find its way to me!
Howard