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From: rrw@naucse.cse.nau.edu (Robert Wier)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Info on some old terminals needed
Keywords: lear-siegler, memorex, soroc
Message-ID: <2747@naucse.cse.nau.edu>
Date: 25 Oct 90 07:40:31 GMT
References: <271fe183-4c9sci.electronics@vpnet.chi.il.us> <1990Oct24.161056.26330@isis.cs.du.edu>
Organization: Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff AZ
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In article <1990Oct24.161056.26330@isis.cs.du.edu>, cbrandau@isis.cs.du.edu (carl brandauer) writes:
> 
> In the days when BYTE still was worth reading it contained a note that
> pointed out that the LC rom was a standard less than $5.- item in which the
> polarity of the chip select had been reversed.  The author also pointed out
> that somewhere near the rom socket there was an unused inverter, so a bent
> pin and a few small wires did the trick.
> 
> Sorry I don't remember what issue, but would guess within the first five or
> so years after the first issue.  Good luck.


  AHA! GOOD information.  I will have to check over in the library
 to see if they have issues back that far.  I believe BYTE started
 publishing in Sept, 1976 (or was it 1975?).

 Just as an aside, when BYTE started I got wind of it about 4 
 months ahead.  I told some of my fellow graduate students that
 there was going to be a magazine devoted to micro processors and
 small desktop computers.  It was amazing how many of them said
 "WHY?".  These were the days of the large IBM machines, and no
 one could think of a reason to have a small computer on your desk,
 as long as you had a terminal.  I eventually worked on my 
 dissertation on an IBM 4341 (I think it was...) but had to wait
 until after midnight because I needed a (GASP!) 800K byte 
 partition.  Normally during the day you could only get a maximum
 of 120K.  Being a poor graduate student, I wrote up an article
 "on spec" for BYTE and it turned up in issue #3. Carl Helmers
 was editor at that time, a real gentleman...


 - Bob Wier

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